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ally found in Norman work of the latter part of the 12th century. The peculiar- 

 ity thereof is that the east and west sides do not correspond in their character 

 and mouldings. 



The next important change which we find is the removal of the Norman side 

 aisles. 



In the early part of the 13th century when the Early English style of 

 architecture changed the form of the windows, and elongated ones with tracery 

 took the place of the Norman, the principal portion of the south aisle was built 

 of a gn^eater width than its predecessor, and appears to have been built at three 

 different periods. The eastern-most part (known as St. Anne's Chapel), as 

 appears from a straight joint in the wall, with its three windows and doorway, 

 being the most ancient ; then the aisle, with its four windows, to another straight 

 joint in the wall, where it probably ended. From that point westward a totally 

 different style prevails, in the formation of the buttresses, string-course and inner 

 mouldings of the window jambs, the concave being changed to convex, in the 

 heads of the south-west and west windows. A respected parishioner, on whose 

 judgment and authority I can rely, lately taken from us in mature old age (Mr. 

 Robert Edy), has told me that he recollects the window at the south-west corner, 

 and the window at the west end of the aisle, with horizontal transoms and upright 

 mullions, which would indicate the perpendicular style, and in this he is con- 

 firmed by entries in the churchwarden's books, in which is recorded, " 181S. Sep. 

 19. By cash received from Biddulph on account of west window £20," and in the 

 year 1824, " Mrs. Myddleton Biddulph one moiety of expense to window in south- 

 west corner of Church £6, " when the tracery of the old windows was taken out 

 and new introduced, to correspond with the other windows on the south aisle, 

 and with the west window on the north aisle, producing the wretched specimens 

 of anachronism which we now see. At a later period, while the Early English 

 style prevailed, the north aisle was built with its beautiful tall windows at the 

 east and west ends. The porch or parvise appears to have been added aborit that 

 period, as the same character prevails in the outer arch, in the arch of the door- 

 way, and the windows of the north side of the aisle, which have this peculiarity, 

 that the heads are not curved to merge gradually into the jambs, but spring from 

 a point, and the heads take a shape approximating to an equilateral triangle. 



In the porch is a lower chamber formerly connected by a staircase with two 

 upper chambers for the use of the sacristan. One of them has a fireplace and 

 piscina of Early English date ; the proportions of the rooms have, however, been 

 entirely destroyed by a fine specimen (I hope the last of its kind), of what is called 

 " Churchwarden's architecture," when, about 30 years ago, the ceiling of the lower 

 chamber was raised, thereby interfering with the windows of the upper chamber, 

 as well as with one, or it may be a doorway, in the north wall of the church. 



Up to this date the north and south arcades of the nave remained in their 

 Norman shape. In the early part of the 14th century, when the Decorated style 

 was introduced, the south arcade was taken down, and the present pillars and 

 arches were built, corresponding in form and moulding with those at Sandhurst 

 Church, in Kent, viz., a plane octagonal pier with a simple capital and moulded 



