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it has been raised in modern times by a barbarous addition of brick 
above the flint and stoue work, and on this the original coping seems 
to have been replaced, so that restoration would be easy. In the 
Perpendicular period the aisle appears to have had a low-pitched 
leaden roof. The porch, which protects the great south door, is of 
little interest: it may perhaps have been part of the Perpendicular 
work originally: it bears the date 1648, when it was probably 
rebuilt. 
In the west wall of the nave there has been a fine window of the 
fourteenth century. From the character of the mouldings it must 
have been flowing Decorated, probably rather later than the work of 
the chancel. It is, and probably always was, of four lights. Un- 
fortunately, the tracery has been entirely removed, and the mullions 
carried through to the window arch. From the size of the window, 
and the sharpness of the arch, it probably was a valuable example, 
and it may not be possible now to recover the design. 
A Perpendicular west doorway, with a very depressed arch but 
good mouldings, has been inserted under this window, in such a 
manner as to interfere with the sill, probably in the reign of Henry 
VII.: its hood moulding was terminated with carved heads which 
have been defaced. 
The transepts were originally Early English, but have been con- 
siderably altered in the Perpendicular period, when the pitch of the 
_ roof was lowered, and the side walls were probably raised. Both 
transepts have triplets of lancets'! in their north and south gables, 
and a single lancet each in their west walls.2 The south transept 
has a richer lancet in its east wall, moulded externally and internally: 
__ its superior richness is probably due to its eastward position. Early 
English arches open into the transepts from the aisles of the nave, 
_ that which communicates with the south aisle having clustered 
-1The arch of the triplet in the north transept has been tampered with, and 
_ the roundness of the heads of these windows in both transepts is due to a 
2 spreading of the masonry, and the insertion of small pieces of stone, to fill the 
_ gentre joints which had opened. 
_ *That in the south transept has been a good deal restored. A door in the 
_ west wall of the north transept I believe to be modern. 
