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nimbus, but her head is covered jwith a veil or hood, surmounted by a sort of 

 trifurcate or perhaps mural crown. All these fig^es are painted on a broad red 

 band along the top of the vault. This band is bounded by a white stripe on each 

 side, and stopped E. and W. by bands of an interlaced pattern, which are carried 

 all round the walls and vault against the end walls. 



The side waUs of the chancel are each divided into two unequal parts by 

 windows near the east end. The nothem one is very perfect, it has bands to the 

 inner and outer arches, and the splay of the jambs and arch is covered with a 

 chess board pattern of red, blue and white. The southern window is much 

 injured, but there remains above it, as above the other, a painted canopy of walls 

 and towers. West of the mudows are painted on eacli side six arch-headed 

 niches, in which are seated figures of the Twelve Apostles. They are all nimbed, 

 and hold books. St. Peter, who occupies the eastern place on the north side, is 

 distinguished by a large key which he holds under his left arm. The others have 

 nothing by which they can be recognised. They are not arranged in pairs, as is so 

 often the case, but the attention of all is directed upwards towards the central 

 figure. Below the feet of the Apostles there has been an ornamental band or 

 frieze, some of which remains, but all painting below it is lost, if it ever existed. 



Eastward of the two side windows are a pair of niches rather wider than 

 those occupied by the Apostles. In each is a figure without nimbus, and holding 

 a staff in each hand, one carried over the shoulder, and the other used as a support, 

 suggesting the idea that these figures represent pilgrims. Both wear long tunics 

 with mantles fastened on the shoulder, and the southern one has a hat of orthodox 

 pilgrim shape. 



The east end has one \vindow with a round-arched head concentric with the 

 vatdt. Below it is a band of interlaced pattern like that at the ends of the vault. 



Over the window are three roundels, each containing a nimbed angel with a 

 scroU, and on each side there has been a large arched niche. Of the northern 

 niche little remains, but in the other is a very perfect figure of a bishop. He is 

 habited in Mass vestments, the right hand raised in benediction, and the left 

 holding a pastoral staflF. 



VESTMENTS. 



The chasuble is dark blue or purple, lined with yellow ; it is short in front 

 and long behind, as we find it in other examples of the same date. There is a 

 broad white or grey orphrey down the front, and a light red band round the neck, 

 which I think belongs to the chasuble, and is not the amice, as it would be at a 

 later date. 



The dalmatic is white, and reaches to the feet, so that the alb and stole are 

 not visible. 



The maniple is thin and very narrow, with expanding ends of white, with 

 a row of tassels on each, as on the stole of St. Thomas of Canterbury at Sens. It 



