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doorways. About the same time the transept would appear to 
have been walled off from the nave, and doorways and fireplaces 
inserted. There appears also to have been an upper floor formed 
in the transept, but this has also disappeared. 
At a later period perhaps, a huge chimney was formed at the 
East end of the chancel stretching all across the width, and 
resting on a large oak beam, the ends of which were inserted into 
~ two small windows of very early date in the ground floor. Part 
of the East wall was also cut away for the formation of an oven 
on the outer side, and also for a boiler and flue on the inner 
side on the South-east corner. 
The chimney was so dilapidated that I decided to pull it 
down, and on doing so there was found in the East wall a group 
of three large niches of very good design, but much damaged by 
heat and smoke. The projecting canopies and corbels had been 
cut away, probably in forming the chimney, but fragments of the 
canopies were found in the loose masonry, and portions of the 
mouldings having ball ornaments and carved crockets. 
The central niche has a curious circular flue, about 12 inches in 
diameter, built partly in the niche and partly in a buttress on the 
outer side of the wall. The front part of this flue has been nearly 
all broken away, but fragments of it were found, as also a semi- 
circular cap stone to go near the top of the niche. 
The lower part of the flue has been splayed out and brought to 
the front, but all the work below down to the ground had been 
destroyed with the exception of two jambs of arecess about 4 feet 
wide and 3 feet high. A broad shelf was carried on either side 
of this recess at the East end, and returned for a short distance 
along the North and South walls. The recess is so clean that it 
does not appear to have been a fireplace, and the flue is only 
slightly stained with smoke which seems to have come from the 
oven and boiler. 
The upper part of this flue was evidently destroyed when the 
large chimney was formed, as at that time the East gable appears 
