By C. E. Ponting, FSA. 347 
hands in the attitude of prayer and feet resting on two animals 
(?lions); the figure is vested in chasuble, maniple, and a kind of 
hood. (Is this the “arched monument to 4 lady, ¢. 1350” referred 
to by Canon Jackson?) The other features of this period are the 
re-modelling of the lancet window in the south wall of the sanctuary 
and a two-light square-headed window in the south wall of the 
nave westward of the Church. These are very clumsy in design, 
but the chisel-pointed cusp stamps them as belonging to the 
Decorated period; they are probably not later than 1370. 
This Church had its share in the transformations during the 
15th century, although perhaps less than might have been ex- 
pected. The first seems to have been the erection of the beautiful 
porch, with the room over it, and the chapel eastward of it up to 
the then existing transept, at about 1460. The outer doorway of 
the porch is moulded with label. Over it is a two-light pointed 
window to light the upper room, having the peculiarity that the 
quatrefoil in the head between the lights is not pierced. The porch 
has a panelled parapet, in the centre of which is an empty niche 
with groined canopy and crocketted finial. A plain shield on the 
corbel cloaks the intersection of the cornice. There are diagonal 
buttresses to the porch, carried up to the top with pinnacles 
standing square on them at the parapet level, while bases and 
portions of the shafts of pinnacles (the one on the west does not 
appear to have been carried higher than at present) stop the 
parapet against the nave roof. A moulded base and chamfered 
plinth are carried round porch and buttresses and chapel. The 
lower stage is vaulted in stone with lierne ribs and carved bosses 
at the intersections; two angel-corbels holding shields form the 
_ springers against the nave, and two heads those against the outer 
wall. The inner doorway was inserted in the Norman wall at the 
same time, and it possesses the same curious base as the outer one. 
A stoup with trefoil head exists in the wall on the right of it; the 
bowl is cut away. There are traces of colour decoration around 
both doorway and stoup. It is clear from the height of the bench 
seats that the floor of the porch has been lowered some 7 or 8 
inches, and the bases of the columns show that this extended to the 
