98 NEWTON SOLNEY CHURCH. 



this was evidently for the wooden shutter, or for a frame to 

 carry canvas, which was used in early times instead of glass, 

 or until the windows were glazed. We have specimens of 

 glass in England of the 12th century, and it seems to have 

 been used in ecclesiastical earlier than in domestic buildings, 

 but it does not appear to have been in common use until a 

 later period. From the building accounts of Westminster 

 Abbey in the latter part of the reign of Henry the 3rd (1266 

 — 1271) the application of canvas or some material of that 

 kind, is specifically mentioned. 



The greater part of the present church was built in the 14th 

 century. The nave, pillars, and arches, the jambs and label 

 moulding of the east window, the buttresses generally, and the 

 coping moulding of the south aisle parapet are specimens of 

 the work of the early part of that century (about 1330). Some 

 of the windows and the tower and spire, in my opinion, were 

 erected toward the close of the century. 



The north chapel may also have been erected about this 

 time. The monuments now in the south-east angle of the 

 chancel formerly stood under one of the two arches between 

 the chapel and the chancel. The chancel arch and respond 

 would be removed at this time to allow of the arches being 

 built. At Muggington Church the chancel arch seems to have 

 been removed to allow of the Pole chapel being erected on the 

 south of the chancel. 



The clerestory was added when the high roof over the nave 

 was removed in the 15th century. 



I have not yet mentioned the north doorway and window ; 

 the doorway is of Norman character of the 12th century, and 

 the carving of the heads both inside and outside the two- 

 light window have much the character of Norman work. I 

 have, at various times, thoroughly examined the section of the 

 outer moulding of the door, the nature of the stonework of 

 the door, the window and the walling generally, the jointing 

 of the stonework of the door head outside, and of the door 

 arch and window arch inside, and have compared them with 

 the jointing of the stonework in the north arches in the 





