By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 179 
each side in the fifteenth century, when the projecting staircase to 
the rood-loft with diagonal buttress was erected on the north. It 
will be noticed that the string-course on the north stops at the 
buttress, but was re-set on the south. One of the buttresses on the 
north has been removed, and a modern window put in its place. 
There is a good doorway on the north, of the period I refer to, 
with semi-circular arch and a lancet window eastward of it. There 
is a lancet in the corresponding position on the south, but with 
very remarkable label terminals. One of the buttresses here is 
partially hidden by the porch, and another has a thirteenth century 
_ eoffin slab let into it. It is interesting to note that the lines of 
the plinth and string-courses slope downwards towards the east, 
following the natural fall of the site. 
The porch appears to have been built in the fourteenth century, 
and it has a very curious niche in its east wall, with square head 
without cusping and a square pedestal for the figure, with a panel 
of “Flowing” type beneath—all much scraped, and probably 
partly renewed. 
The chancel is a Perpendicular one of c#rea 1450, with two two- 
light square-headed windows with label and head-terminals on the 
north, and the same on the south, with the addition of a small 
_ priest’s door, which looks like a thirteenth century one re-built. 
_ The east window is a three-light pointed one of coeval date, placed 
at an unusually high level (this has doubtless been raised), and 
there are two good diagonal buttresses. 
The tower is a good solid-looking one of about 1430, of three 
stages in height, divided by string-courses, with diagonal buttresses 
stopping near the top of the middle stage. In each face of the 
belfry stage is a double, simple pointed, window (which might be 
of the thirteenth century) ; in the west face of the lower stage is a 
good three-light window with head-terminals and a good doorway 
‘under—a four-centred arch contained within a square label and 
e spandrels traceried. The parapet of the tower is embattled and 
has carved gargoyles at the angles, but no pinnacles, and there is 
a good moulded plinth. 
_ The archway opening into the nave is coeval with the tower. 
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