By C. FE. Ponting, F.S.A. 171 
_ Norman aisle), with a priest’s room over it approached by a turret 
_ staircase starting from the aisle. The outer arch is of two orders 
_ of chamfers, the inside carried on attached shafts with carved caps 
_ —the one on the west is the original, and is a good specimen of 
the natural form of carving of the Decorated Period; the other 
has been renewed. The priest’s room has a fireplace in the east 
wall (a brick arch taking the place of the Norman tympanum 
removed to the sacristy doorway) and a square stone lavatory, or 
sink, by it. In the north wall is a small squint, 12in. high x 
2hin. wide, looking into the aisle. This room is lighted by an 
original single-light window, with square head, on the west ; traces 
of two small pointed windows, or niches, can be seen in the south 
wall over the archway, but these were displaced in the fifteenth 
century when the present fine niche was added. This niche is a 
triple one of square outline with carved cresting, the central com- 
partment is carried nearly the full height and the canopies over 
the side niches are on the same level, but intermediate canopies are 
worked over the latter to adapt them to the lower figures—the 
subject was evidently a Calvary. At about the same time the 
niche inside the east wall of the porch was inserted, this has been 
much mutilated, and the canopy cut away, but it bears evidence of 
great richness. The parapet and pinnacles were added when the 
great re-modelling of the Church was carried out. 
This appears to have been commenced with the building of the 
- western tower shortly before the middle of the fifteenth century, 
and followed by the re-construction of the nave arcades. It is 
clear that both of these works were done whilst the original outer 
walls of the aisles stood, and the latter extended some feet farther 
westward than the present aisles—thus the nave arches are carried 
beyond the length of the present west end of the aisles, and the 
exact length of the old south aisle can be seen on the south of the 
tower staircase, where fragments of its parapet remain. Then 
and the re-building of the north and south aisles. These works 
rere doubtless carried on consecutively, but they would occupy a 
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