170 CRYPT BENEATH THE CHANCEL OF REPTON CHURCH. 
quoins of the Saxon work being perfect at the two angles. Their 
material, a white stone, most distinctly contrasting with the few 
- courses of later addition on each angle, which last are of a reddish 
tint. The Saxon quoins are not what would be called “long and 
short work,” but correspond with the usual run of late Saxon ones 
in having the joint. fairly close at the angle and gradually 
widening inwards, precisely as in those of the Saxon Church of 
Boarhunt, in Hampshire, etc. 
Each of the three faces of the Saxon chancel had, at some 
distance from the ground, a square string, from which rose two of 
the usual narrow stone ribs or pilasters, dividing the whole space 
into three parts, a wide centre and two narrower sides. The ribs 
seem to have simply run up and finished under eaves of roof and 
gable coping (if coping then existed). The triangle of gable had 
completely gone at an early period, a few quoins, together with a 
raising so far of the side walls, and a new gable (and its summer 
stones) has been added. This hada further slight addition again 
to the gable, probably when the present Decorated east window 
was introduced. : 
The Norman crypt has certain peculiarities which seem to argue 
the presence of a foreign architect or master mason, especially in 
the singular plan of the wall shafts or responds, if such a term is 
here justifiable. Though no painting can be seen on the vault 
plaster, yet considerable remains exist on the caps of the columns, 
where the colour of the upper sunk hollow line is green, that of 
the lower dark red, the under splay of cap light red; in some 
cases these flattish hollows appear to have been ornamented with 
either figures or foliage. In no case does the lines of these caps 
ever range or level with those of the older cornice, against which 
they are placed. The shafts in the centre of this vaulting have as 
much to carry as they well can bear, nor would it be at all safe to 
add to their load further weight above. The north-east and south- 
east vault spaces (alone) retain openings which once went through 
to the upper chancel, and in the south-west division is the repair 
of a hole broken through the vault ; no doubt that which was made 
when this cryptis described as ‘‘ just discovered.”’ In the eastern 
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