196 Notes on Churches visited in 1898. 
The aisle roofs are of seventeenth century date ; that on the south, 
however, probably retains the steep pitch of the twelfth century 
roof with the eaves coming so low that until the present century 
there were no windows in the south wall—one has, however, been 
inserted, as well as one in the west wall and another in the east 
wall—the latter taking the place of an earlier one, of which traces 
remain. ‘The tie-beams of the north aisle are curiously curved, 
with the object of bringing them over the nave arches. The walls 
of the north aisle appear to have been partly re-built and altered, 
but the modern doorway doubtless takes the place of the ancient 
one, and there is a three-light square-headed Perpendicular 
window remaining eastward of it; the other windows are 
modern. 
The tower is so overgrown with ivy that its features are almost 
hidden. It is of three stages in height and has a tiled pyramidal 
roof; there is a modern single-light window in each stage of the — 
west face—that in the west of the lower stage is contained within 
a square opening of anterior date, and there are indications of the 
jambs and tracery of an old window having been cut away to insert 
it. In the upper stage there appears to be a single-light window — 
in each face. It is obvious from the drip-course on the east face 
that the tower was erected before the Norman roof of the nave 
gave way to the clerestory and flat roof; it is probably a fourteenth 
century one, but the indications are very vague. 
The south porch is a Perpendicular one of great depth with stone 
benches, the outer doorway has a four-centred arch with traceried 
spandrels, contained within a square label. The inner doorway is 
the original Norman one of plain type—a semi-circular head 
having label with billet-mould and square return terminals, a 
simple chamfer is carried round jambs and arch and stopped near 
the floor. f 
It is worthy of note that, with the exception of the two to the ‘ 
porch, there are no buttresses to the Church, and that there are no — 
parapets or copings, excepting the coping on the east gable of the 
nave. : 
The reading pew and pulpit are good Jacobean work; the latter 
