
By the Rev. Precentor Lear. 237 
The east window, of four lights, which is the double of the side 
windows, though shortened and not so elegant in form, is highly 
decorated, the tracery of a flamboyant character, the window arch 
being slightly ogee-headed. This window, as well as that at the 
end of the south transept, has above it a small triangular opening 
in the roof, trifoliated with spherical sides. The ogee dripstones 
of the windows are continued round these upper windows or 
openings. The parapets of the chancel and south transept exhibit 
some singular ornamental panelling in relief. The parapet of the 
sacristy to the west is pierced and bold, in a part of the church 
generally unobserved. The priest’s door, or chancel porch, is 
highly ornamented, and almost unique. Its hood, or covering, is - 
elegantly groined within, and the eccentric manner in which its 
western side springs from the wall and buttress, is very remarkable. 
The staircase turret at present terminates in a flat roof covered 
with lead. This does not appear to be the original finish, as the 
steps are carried up to the under side of the roof bearers. The 
nave porch, which is large and ugly, and may some day, I hope, 
' be superseded by a porch more worthy of this church, had a parvise 
above it within the memory of man. The building which I have 
already alluded to at the south end of the south transept is occupied 
by two tombs of different date, which were moved into it by my pre- 
decessor from the south transept, where they were lying north and 
south. The nave, inside as well as outside, including the windows 
which have no drip stones, and the flat roof, is of inferior design 
and workmanship. The tower arches are plain, without capitals. 
The arch opening to the south transept is smaller, of different form, 
with a light in the wall above. The two transepts, formerly 
chantry chapels, had each their altar; the niches and piscinas 
remain. The windows of these transepts, with their moulded 
joints and rich head tracery, are very beautiful. The two on the 
eastern side, near the former altars, are more ornamented than 
those to the west. The roof of the south transept is of stone, 
having bold moulded ribs springing from sculptured corbels. It 
has a low stone seat running along the western and southern walls. 
On the west wall of the north transept is a monumental figure of 
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