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successive alterations it has undergone, and the work of different 

 periods remaining. It is a cruciform, aisleless building, with a tower 

 over the north transept and a north porch. The walls of the nave and 

 chancel are Norman ; those of the nave having been raised probably 

 in the fourteenth century. The original Norman north doorway of 

 the nave remains, though somewhat concealed in the upper part by 

 the fourteenth century porch which has been built against it. This door- 

 way has a solid tympanum, with curious and interesting carving ; in 

 the centre is a tree, with three birds in its branches ; on the right, an 

 Agnus Dei ; and below, on the left, a Sagittarius ; and, on the right, a 

 lion, identified by an apparently contemporary inscription underneath 

 — " Sagittarius . . . Leo." The suggestion, in this and other cases, 

 that the Sagittarius had reference to King Stephen, appears to me 

 fanciful ; as also the notion that the carvings typify St. Michael and 

 the devil ; though the Sagittarius is certainly represented as shooting 

 at the lion, they may simply be two of the signs of the zodiac. There 

 are the remains of a corresponding Norman doorway on the south side 

 of the nave, but it has lost its arch and tympanum owing to the 

 insertion of a later window over it ; so that we cannot tell whether 

 more signs of the zodiac were carved upon it. There are the remains 

 of two small original windows in the north and south walls of the 

 nave, and one in the south wall of the chancel. The chancel walls 

 retain very interesting original corbel tables. The chancel arch is a 

 Norman one restored. Above it, on the side next the nave, is a 

 defaced carved string course, apparently Norman, which would be 

 parallel to the orginal flat ceiling if the usual Norman arrangement 

 existed. 



On the south side of the chancel, near the east end, is a double 

 lancet window of the thirteenth century, under one arch intei-nally ; 

 to the west of this, a lancet of the fourteenth century ; and, to the 

 west of that again, a low side window, of the same date, with a plain 

 cusped head. It is obvious that the latter window may have been 

 exactly similar in the head, and have been reduced to the lancet form 

 by cutting away the cusps, but it is not absolutely certain. 



Exactly the same arrangement seems to have prevailed on the north 

 side of the chancel, as is shown by the original arches of the windows 

 remaining internally ; but externally they have been remodelled in 



