By C. H. Talbot, Esq. 245 
there is a turret containing the staircase to the tower, and originally 
entered from the interior of the transept: both chancel and turret 
probably had, or were intended to have, a parapet, which might re- 
semble the later flint and stone parapet of the south aisle. 
The sedilia have been a good deal restored, with new carving, 
having probably been much mutilated, so that it is difficult to judge 
of their original merit: they have been restored with four seats, but 
obviously the correct restoration would be three seats and a piscina : 
to the east of what was the piscina is an ambry. 
Of a string-course which runs beneath the windows internally, but 
a small portion is original, and from that the remainder has been 
restored. 
This chancel has always had a wooden roof: the original corbels which 
supported it, with one exception, remain: they are situated between 
the side windows, and adjoining the end walls, and are finely carved. 
A most unfortunate alteration of the design was introduced at the 
restoration, when additional corbels were made at the points of the 
windows, like keystones, and worked in with the mouldings of their 
arches: to do justice to the design of the original builders, these 
must be ignored. One of the old corbels, the second from the east 
on the south side, had been left uncarved: it would have been well, 
if it had so remained, to tell its own tale : it is now a modern corbel, 
out of harmony with the others, and of no interest. There is 
evidence, at the east end, of a slight alteration of the design, by the 
original builders, there being in the angles corbels, at a low level, 
with shafts springing from them; but, for some reason, this work 
was abandoned, the shafts stopped abruptly, and other corbels in- 
troduced above. If the original roof had remained to our time, it 
_ would probably have heen a valuable example. Before the restoration 
there were, I am told, four great beams, corresponding with the. 
_ corbels, which were hidden by a ceiling: these may perhaps have 
belonged to the original roof. 
There are in the chancel several monuments of the last century to 
members of the Duncombe family. 
There is a hagioscope, on the south side of the chancel arch,. 
which may have been cut through at a late date: it does not point 
