XX1V REPORT. 
mounted by arcades, in the outer walls of which are clerestory windows. The 
northern arcade has triplets of Norman arches within, and single Norman 
lights without. The southern arcade has a series of pointed arches in pairs, 
the easternmost a triplet within, and pointed lights in pairs without. 
The central tower has three tiers of Norman arches in each of its four walls, © 
the lower tier forming a passage round it ; hagioscopes remain in the north- 
eastern and south-eastern of its four piers, all of which are remarkably massive. 
There are obvious traces owtszde the Church that it had apses at the eastern 
end of the chancel, and at the eastern sides of the north and south transepts ; 
and that the chancel had an upper story, and a Norman arcade running round 
it between the two stories, of which a single arch remains on each side next 
to the tower ; and traces zzside that the chancel was divided into two stories, 
with a vaulted roof to the lower story. 
It has been conjectured that the upper story was the separate chapel of a 
religious community, who may have had access to it through a doorway (still 
apparent) at the eastern end of the south wall of the south aisle, and by the 
stairs in the south transept, and by the arcaded passages in that transept and in 
the south and east sides of the central tower. 
Another view may be that this upper story was the ‘* Church of St. Mary 
of Melbourne,” mentioned in early records. 
Curved portions of the chancel apse may be seen inside and outside the 
church ; and inside, portions of two of its Norman windows, with a side shaft 
of each of those two windows, now closed. 
When the apses were removed (date uncertain, but the engraving above 
referred to represents a square east end) the present obtusely-pointed five-light 
window was placed in the squared east end of the chancel, and the arches in 
the eastern sides of the transept and the Norman lights above them being 
closed, there were inserted in the north transept wall a square headed three- 
light window, and in the south transept wall a three-light decorated window, 
the latter of which is obviously made up of portions of two different windows, 
brought from elsewhere. 
The four square-headed three-light windows in each of the two aisles are in- 
sertions subsequent to the construction of those aisles. 
The lower portion of the central tower, having shafts at its external angles, 
retains its Norman character ; the upper portion was at some period removed, 
and the present belfry was substituted, in which four bells were placed. They 
bear the dates 1610, 1614, 1632, and 1732. 
In the south transept, in which is the organ (Bevington, 1860), are a 
recumbent effigy of a knight in armour, a tombstone bearing a floriated cross, 
and three alabaster tombstones of Hardinges, formerly of King’s Newton Hall 
(1613, 1670, and 1673), ancestors of the Viscounts Hardinge, of King’s 
Newton. 
