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copy of the original, all old work being carefully retained. The roof of the north 

 aisle is similar in character and detail to that of the south aisle. The rotif of the 

 nave is wagon-shaped, and of much later date. All the roofs of the Early English 

 character were of very high pitch. Towards the end of the loth century, they 

 became much lower. Unfortunately, the roofs of this church are placed on walls 

 of a much earlier date, and consequently, in the nave and north aisle, they inter • 

 fere with the heads of the windows. As we find them, so we must leave them. I 

 have in my possession, a report made by an eminent architect in the year 1858 

 (two years prior to my incumbency), in which the grand old roofs were pronounced 

 to be decayed, sentence was passed upon them, and plans with specifications were 

 given, supplanting them by ordinary tie-beam roofs of red deal. Happily, these 

 plans were never carried out, and the roofs, so far from being decayed, will last for 

 many ages to come. 



The doors at the northern entrance have a greater interest attaching to them 

 than their homely appearance would claim for them. About two years ago, when 

 they were cleaned and planed to a fair surface, the workmen found several bullets 

 embedded in the wood. From their appearance and colour, there is a little doubt 

 that they were in existence at the time of the civil wars, in the reign of Charles I. 



Attention may be called to the glass sun-dial in one of the windows of the 

 south aisle. There are not many of the kind in existence. They are curious, but 

 not altogether to be depended upon for their accuracy in denoting time, as the 

 surface is affected by the action of the wind. The painted glass in the tracery of 

 the east window, some figures in the north window of the chancel, some fragments 

 in the window over the door of St. Catherine's Chapel, which have been collected 

 from other parts of the church, and re-glazt d, are all that is worthy of notice. The 

 other painted or stained glass is of a modern and inferior character. 



Two or three monuments call for a passing remark. 



The first is a small square brass in the floor, at the south-east corner of the 

 south aisle, with the following quaint inscription : — 



*' The world's fashion defied 

 Our Lord's passion applied 

 His bliss only in this descried 

 Ould Richard Hayward died 

 An. Dom. 1618." 



An entry in the burial register records that "Richard Hay ward, gent, buried 

 the seventeenth day of August, 1618 " ; and that he lived at Prior's Court, would 

 appear from the following entry — " Dorotie Pikely, servant with Mr. Haywarde, 

 of Prior's Court, was buried in 1615. " 



The next is a small brass figure on the floor of the chancel. 



The next is in a recess in the north-east window of the north aisle, where there 

 is a recumbent figure of a female (unknown), which has evidently been removed 

 from some other part of the church, as the altar-tomb on which it is placed is 

 Perpendicular Work, while the dress of the figure is of the time of Edward II. 

 The cushion on which the head reclines having been reduced in size would indicate 

 that it had been placed elsewhere, but remo\ed and fitted to its present position. 



In the north wall of the south aisle is a remarkable monument, where the out- 



