170 Notes on Churches visited in 1898. 
The walls of the chancel are mainly of the earliest pointed period 
—so early that we may call it Transitional Norman—but the present 
fine proportions of this part of the Church are in a measure due 
to a subsequent raising of the walls; the line of the early roof can 
be seen on the east wall of the north chapel where a part of the 
weather-mould which protected the overhanging eaves (there could 
have been no parapet) remains, and the corbel table of distinctly 
Norman type shows in the room over the sacristy on the north 
side. There is a low flat pilaster buttress overlapping the south- 
east angle, the corresponding one at the north-east was probably 
removed when the sacristy was built. One of the original windows 
—a single lancet with wide inner splay carried round the arch 
(always an early feature)—exists on the north of the sanctuary, 
and slightly westward of it, in an unusual position, is a trefoil- 
arched piscina, which looks as though it once had a wooden shelf. 
A similar piscina exists in the usual place on the south of the 
sanctuary, near the east end; both have new stones in place of 
their bowls. A roll-mould string-course is carried round the 
inside of the parts of the walls which have not been interfered 
with by subsequent alterations; the east window and that on the 
south of the sanctuary and the roof are modern, and the former — 
can scarcely be said to enhance the beauty of the chancel. . 
The walls of the north transept are coeval with those of the 
chancel, although they were raised in the later re-modelling, when 
the north-east buttress was removed—the original buttress similar 
to that of the chancel remains at the north-west angle. A small 
portion of the old masonry remains in the east wall of the south 
transept, but this underwent a more extensive re-building than the 
north. 
There was, therefore, a cruciform Church here in the twelfth 
century, the east, north, and south arms of which extended to the 
limits of the present building, and it is reasonable to suppose that 
it had a central tower, but all this, with the inside arches and other 
work of that period, has been swept away. 
Next in order of date comes the porch, which is a large one of 
the fourteenth century (when it was doubtless erected against the — 
