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country churches of Norway; and that about the 
church was enlarged by the addition of two lean- 
_ the two Norman openings which I have described ; 
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_ of the congregation were centred in the service of the altar. But 
it is obvious that the same provision could no longer be regarded 
as satisfactory when those interests had been transferred to the 
ministrations of the pulpit; and so it was that in 1811 four of the 
families, whose pews were situated in the aisles, combined to effect a 
remedy for their comparative isolation from the nave, by having the 
present wide arches substituted for the narrow Norman ones exhibited 
above. 
To return however to the original formation of the aisles. 
It is evident then that these Norman arches and piers (which 
though of somewhat different character were co-eval, or nearly so, 
with the present Norman south door-way), were of comparatively 
late insertion, as the contrast between them and the original 
masonry is very striking—the original wall appears to consist of 
sarsen stones and chalk very rudely and irregularly put together, 
and is probably the remains of the original Saxon Church which, 
as we know, existed here before the Norman Conquest; whereas 
the Norman work consists of freestone worked with great nicety ; 
and Mr. Chivers assures me that the central mass of wall which 
_ was removed in 1811 for the present piers, presented precisely the 
_ same comparative character. I presume from this, that the church 
consisted originally merely of a nave with small chancel or apse, 
wooden font, such as I have seen in many of the 
date of the present Early Norman Font, the 
to aisles connected with them on either side by 

though whether any part of the present clerestory Y°°™" 7°" N°™*Y- 
be of that early date, and whether it was on that account judged 
necessary to leave such substantial supports between the arches, I 
am not sufficiently skilled in ecclesiology to venture an opinion. 
1Jt would appear probable, from the 81st Canon of 1603, prescribing a Font 
of stone in every Church, that some wooden Fonts had survived in England 
until that date. 
