284 Durrington and Durnford Churches. 
The masonry of the chancel is probably nearly a century later 
than that of the re-modelling of the nave, or late in the 12th 
century, it is therefore probable that the latter work was built 
against an earlier chancel which remained in use for some time 
afterwards. The chancel has been restored by the Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners, who re-built, apparently, the whole of the north 
wall and part of the south, with one buttress here. The windows 
have, however, been preserved. On the north there is a central 
flat buttress with a slightly pointed lancet window on each side: 
there were corresponding windows on the south, but only the one 
on the south of the sanctuary remains intact, the other has been 
cut into and blocked up in forming the priest’s doorway, which in 
itself has been modernised. The east window is a triple lancet 
under a pointed arch, and is of the same period, with a low flat 
buttress beneath it. In the north wall near the west end is an 
early example of the small low-side window ; it is 7 inches wide, 
with the broad inner splay of jambs carried round the arch; the 
hooks for the shutter still remain. Between the blocked-up lancet 
on the south and the wall a two-light pointed window was inserted 
in the 15th century, and the proportions of it seem to have been 
adapted to its cramped position. 
The south porch is an oak-framed one of the 15th century, and 
portions of the cut barge boards from this are fixed on the modern 
north porch. 
There are two aumbries, rebated for shutters, inside the east 
wall, the one on the south only (1 foot 10 inches wide and 10 inches 
high) has a chamfer carried round ; the other (1 foot 7 inches wide 
and 10 inches high) has two circular holes in the north jamb, 
1} inches in diameter—one 43 inches and the other 3} inches 
deep. From the crosses cut on this stone I conjecture that it was 
previously used in a vertical position. 
The nave windows contemporary with the buttresses and door- 
ways have all disappeared ; those which doubtless existed on each 
side of the south door gave way, in the 15th century, to two-light 
square-headed windows, one of which had a transom, but the part 
above it has since been removed to insert a wooden-framed window 
