By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 375 



bases ; there are no labels to the arches. With the exception of 

 the roof of the porch, which has been renewed, little alteration 

 appears to have taken place in the fabric of the aisle and porch 

 since their erection. 



The north and east walls of the nave appear to have been re- 

 built, and the present roof erected, in the 15th century; the two 

 nortli windows are pointed ones of three lights with labels, the 

 door (blocked) is a plain one with arch of pointed segmental form ; 

 the three bays are divided by buttresses and there is a diagonal 

 one at the north-west angle. 



The chancel arch is of two orders of cavetto continued around 

 arch and jambs; a small squint, evidently inserted for the use of 

 persons in the nave, exists southward of it. 



The nave retains the original roof of the same collar-and-brace 

 form as that of the aisle, but it has moulded transverse ribs 

 dividing the bays and three longitudinal ones with bosses at the 

 intersections — a good deal of modern casing exists here also, and 

 the cornice is new. An interesting feature in the roof is the 

 narrow bay over the rood loft. 



The evidences of the rood loft and stairs are very pronounced. 

 There are two corbels in the east wall, one on either side of the 

 chancel arch, at the springing level, which supported the back 

 beam of the loft ; above these are two on which the rood beam 

 rested. In the north wall the lower blocked up doorway to the 

 stairs can be traced inside and outside — the upper is hidden by a 

 tablet of 1783. The stair turret has been removed on the outside. 



The tower is coeval with the re-building of the nave wall, the 



buttresses being identical in type. It is of three stages divided 



by string-courses on the outside, with deep base and plinth carried 



iround tower and turret and surmounted by a parapet pierced 



irith five quatrefoils on each side, and crocketted pinnacles at the 



angles; there is a good gargoyle in the centre of the cornice on 



each face. At the angles are diagonal buttresses of very thin 



.dimensions carried up to the middle of the upper stage, and the 



^manner in which the two are corbelled out in the west angles of 



tthe nave is unusual. The stair turret, square in plan, is on the 



