234 



dangerous state and consisted of an outer and inner facing of 

 masonry with the space between hollow, have been filled in with 

 Portland cement, thus binding the whole together in a solid mass. 

 The small round arches have been repaired and completed 

 wherever it was necessary for structural reasons to do so, and 

 wherever there was sufficient "springing" left to carry on the 

 design. On clearing away the structure abutting against the 

 south side, the foundations of a south porch were found ; and the 

 pitch of a high roof, corresponding with the height of the wall, 

 plainly indicated on the outside ; an interesting point, thus 

 showing that the south porch was a fac simile as to height and 

 dimensions of the existing north porch. Two solid buttresses 

 have been carried up, resting upon the base of the east and west 

 walls of this porch, thus marking the site, and acting as a 

 support to the main wall on that side ; though in the opinion of 

 the architect such support was not needed. Of course it is a 

 question about which the different schools of thought may 

 readily dispute, whether this present ugly masonry should 

 remain breaking the harmony of the south side ; or whether 

 the porch should be restored (hateful word to some !) and 

 the walls and roofs added. Entering through the arched 

 doorway into the nave, the great height of the building 

 at once arrested attention ; and when the eye became 

 accustomed to the dim light, the irregularity of the details, the 

 descent instead of ascent into the chancel by a step , the bulging 

 look of the walls, which might have been original and intended 

 to be out of " plumb line ;" the curious " rundlet," or reed-like 

 ornamentation round the chancel arch — the only ornament in the 

 chapel save the two angels high up in the chancel wall, about which 

 Professor Earle discoursed to the Club at their last meeting (Vide 

 p. 162), — all came out at last into prominence. The chancel 

 appears to have been lit by one deeply-splayed window, high up in 

 the south wall, and the length of the whole building, corresponded 

 with the height of the walls, 25 feet. Passing through the north 



