168 CRYPT BENEATH THE CHANCEL OF REPTON CHURCH. 
Saxon walls of the chancel left recesses, which had to be filled up 
with stone work of the date of this new Norman chancet gable, 
which filling up, as if to continue to later ages the memory of 
the work done, leaving those shallow and singular recesses on 
each side, at present seen in these angles externally. 
4thly. Other alterations of later date took place, none of 
much note, more than the destruction of the side chapels. The 
construction through the site of that on the north side of an ex- 
ternal entrance to the crypt. The introduction of later windows in 
north, south, and east walls, and the heightening of these last, with 
which two alterations of the east gable were connected, as may be 
seen in the very rough sketch given on plate XI., No. 1. Of this 
period, the most singular item was the curious method adopted 
by adding stones cut rudely to resemble fragments of arches, as a 
finish to the Saxon plaster strips under the roof eaves (see 
sketch). 
It now remains but to add a few notes descriptive of the drawings. 
The plan given on plate XI., No. 2, will enable it to be perceived that 
the lower chancel had been, as it would seem, rudely octagonal at 
the west end ; the passages entering through the south-west and 
north-west sides of same. The remarkable Saxon cornice which 
went round, in its original state, not only the chancel but also the 
chapels, continued also at the west end, where now only its two 
lower courses (and wall below) remain. Above which lower courses 
the wall with the singular lamp recess is of the Norman date, and 
the introduction of the crypt. The cornice has been destroyed in 
all cases where it returned round into these side chapels when 
the vaulting was introduced, consequently on the jambs so low as 
the destruction of the cornice took place, the Norman vaulting 
plaster finishes downwards ; but below those lines the original 
Saxon ashlar remains perfect. 
The projection of the recess of these side chapels can nowhere 
now be recovered without excavation. It would be interesting to 
discover if still in their remains could be found the tombs of the 
Saxon princes said to have been interred at Repton. 
In all three cases, the marks of the finish of the old sloping stone 
