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definitely determined. Such early churches had mere slits in the walls for light, 

 and these have been enlarged and made into windows. I see nothing here to 

 prove that the nave, at least, is not Norman, with late windows introduced, and 

 I am inclined to think it is so. The nave has very remarkably fine stone quoins ; 

 the one on the south-west angle batters inwards on both faces, and the wall has a 

 fine "spur base." These features are quite characteristic of very early work. On 

 the south side of the nave is a small square-headed window, set high to light the 

 rood loft. The chamfered head of this window is rounded off into the jamb in 

 an unusual manner, as is also the sill. It is worth examination. The jambs may 

 have been those of an earlier window. In the west waU of the nave, to the north 

 of the western chapel, is another square-headed labelled window, with jambs of 

 a hollow section ; this is a late window. There is an ugly square-headed window 

 in the south wall of the nave to the west of the porch, the head of which should 

 be examined ; it looks as if it might have been the head of an early two-light 

 window, from which the mullion and centre part has been cut away. The large 

 three-light window on the south side of the nave is characteristic of the same 

 period as the rood screen and loft, as is also the window with two lights in the 

 east end of the chancel, which has carved terminations to the hood mould. There 

 are two square-headed windows and a priest's door in the south wall of the 

 chancel, and two brackets in the east wall, which are very small and low, for 

 figures — they may be the corbels that carried a credence slab. 



Porch.— The porch, which is on the south side of the nave, is very plain and 

 rather large. There is a stoup by the door, the head of which seems to have been 

 the head of a 13th century window. There are stone seats on either side ; there 

 is also a stone seat against the outside of the south wall of the nave, as well as 

 another, at a higher level, against the south wall of the chancel. 



Bell Cot. — The bell cot is a stone gable with a pent-house behind it ; it is con- 

 structed for two bells, and is erected on the west gable of the nave. 



Roofs. — The roof of the nave was probably reconstructed early in the 16th 

 century ; it is coved to an irregular curve with moulded ribs, and there have been 

 bosses at the intersections. The cornice, which is very deeij, is moulded with a 

 number of roll mouldings, but projects very slightly. The section of the mouldingfs 

 suggests that the introduction of carved enrichments was contemijlated between 

 the rolls. The chancel roof is flat and ugly ; it is not improbable that it is fixed 

 under the rafters of an earlier roof. 



Entrance to Hood Loft. — The entrance to the rood loft is from the nave, on the 

 north side, by stone stairs built in the wall. The little window which lights the 

 stairs is perhaps formed out of the jambs of a 13th century window. 



Rood Screen and Loft. — The rood screen and loft form the grandest feature in 

 the church. It was erected probably quite early in the 16th century, and is cer- 

 tainly one of the finest specimens of the kind in the country. There are many 

 fine oak screens in Breconshire and the adjoining counties, most of which have 

 been mutilated or have fallen into decay, so that what remains of them is, as a 

 rule, very fragmentary. Few of these screens were as beautiful as the one at 

 Partrishaw, with its elaborate courses of carved foliage and ornament in its 



