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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



cylindrical shafts, with angular mouldings on each side, and having, in capitals, 

 well-shaped human faces carved in low relief. 



The interior face of the doorway was only ornamented with a single semi- 

 column at each side, the capital of which was a simple scroll. This doorway 

 was two feet seven inches in width at the spring of the innermost arch, and 

 two feet nine inches at the base ; and in height, to the spring of the arch, five 

 feet two inches, and to its vertex, six feet six inches. 



The chancel arch, which is less distinguished for ornament than the door- 

 way, is also triple-faced, or formed of three concentric and recessed arches on its 

 western face, and is double-faced on its eastern or inner side ; but the arches 

 consist simply of square-edged rib-work, and the ornamental sculpture is con- 

 fined to the piers, which are rounded into semi-columns, and adorned with 

 capitals, as represented in the annexed illustrations, which show a front and 

 side view of the piers. 



This archway is ten feet three inches in width between the jambs ; and in 

 height, from the present level of the floor, which is considerably raised, five 

 feet six inches to the top of the capitals, and eleven feet to the vertex of the 

 arch. 



Whatever doubt may exist as to whether the doorway and chancel arch of 

 this church be of cotemporaneous architecture, there is, at least, no reason to 

 suppose that either of them is later than Brian's time, when the church is stated 

 to have been rebuilt, or restored. But it appears to be equally certain that 



