By C. E. Ponting, F.8.A. 181 
is probably less than it originally was, for it is almost certain that 
there has been some raising of the floor level.) These proportions 
(which it is rendered more difficult to realize from the recent 
lengthening of the nave westward)—the great height as ears 
to length—are an almost certain proof of Saxon work. 
Only one of the windows of this period remains, that on the 
north side of the eastern half: this is very symetrically-formed 
for the period—the jambs being vertical and parallel and not 
tapering as is not unusual—but I have no doubt of its pre-Norman 
origin ; it has a semi-circular head and wide inside splay, which is 
_ carried round jambs and head and as a slope to the sill. There is 
no outer splay to this window, which is placed very high up, the 
_ arch coming within a few inches of the top of the wall. There was 
doubtless a corresponding window in the south wall opposite, but 
it has given way to a three-light window inserted in the fifteenth 
century. No windows appear to have existed in the side walls of 
_ the western half of the nave, which must have received its light 
from the west end—whatever original windows were here, however, 
_ were destroyed and others inserted long ago, before the recent 
demolition of the wall. There are the usual north and south 
doorways at about the centre of the Saxon nave, both of which are 
now blocked. Their inside arches are alike, but the outer arch of 
the north doorway is richer than the other; it has a small roll 
‘member and a double diaper ornament on the arch stones—the 
_ latter was probably cut as a subsequent embellishment. The arch, 
tympanum, and parts of the jambs only, exist here; a sixteenth 
_ century doorway with square head has been inserted under the 
arch when the early jambs were much cut away. The south 
doorway, too, has only parts of its outer arch left. 
The chancel arch is a fine one of a very early type: it is semi- 
circular with plain soffit unmoulded, and enriched on the nave 
side only by a very early kind of diaper ornament carved on the 
fa ee of the voussoirs; the jambs, like the arch, are built with square 
edges and they are not ornamented : there is a chamfered abacus at 
the springing level. The width is 11ft 4in. between the jambs and 
| the height from nave floor to springing is 11ft. 5in. The wall in 
