374 The Church of All Saints, Lijdiard Millicent. 



was probably the baluster mullion of a window of that period, and 

 it is prima facie evidence of a pre-Norman Church. Beyond this 

 and the Norman font there is no evidence of a building earlier 

 than the 14th century, at about the middle of which the aisle and 

 the south porch appear to have been added and the chancel rebuilt 

 soon after (there are no buttresses to either). The present chancel, 

 however, retains only two bays of the one then erected, the eastern 

 bay having been added in recent times ; the old part has two 

 two-light square-headed Decorated windows deeply recessed on 

 the outside with priest's door with semi-circular head between ; 

 a similar old window is built into the extended north wall, and 

 the one opposite is a modern copy. The east window is a 15th 

 century one of three lights, built with the modern wall at a high 

 level. The old gable cross has been preserved, also the trussed 

 rafter roof with moulded horizontal and transverse ribs having 

 carved bosses at the intersections. 



There is only one window in the south wall of the aisle — a 

 pointed one of three lights with label over, and this has lost its 

 old tooled face. 



Close under the eaves are four heads built in, which look 

 distinctly earlier — the springer of the east gable has two of these. 

 In each end of the aisle is a three-light pointed window with 

 tracery of reticulated type and label : on the east gable is the 

 original charming gable cross. The south doorway has an ogee 

 arch with label. On the inside the original piscina with ogee 

 arch remains, but is blocked up. The roof has collars and braces 

 without anymoulded ribs, but its appearance has been altered by the 

 modern beaded casing under the braces ; the cornice is also modern. 



The porch is a plain one without a window, the outer doorway 

 has a pointed arch of two orders of chamfers, the inner order dying 

 on to the plain surface of the jambs and the outer carried down 

 (a sundial is cut on the east jamb). A plinth is carried around 

 the aisle and porch. The arcade between nave and aisle is coeval 

 with the latter and has three bays of pointed arches of two unequal 

 orders of chamfer dying on to drums on the caps of the pillars and 

 responds, both of which are octagonal with moulded caps and 



