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the shafts. There are four good corbels at the west end of the 

 nave, which formed part of the Norman eaves-course. All of this 

 work may be set down at dr. 1160. There were doubtless two 

 doorways, for the existing one, which I have referred to, is 

 composed of stones from two, differing somewhat in design. Ap- 

 parently in the 13th century it was found necessary to enlarge 

 the church, and this was first done, as was usual, on the north side, 

 where there would be fewer burials, and by widening the north aisle, 

 for the lower part of this north wall is the oldest piece of plain 

 walling in the building, and, unlike any other masonry here, it is faced 

 on the outside with green stone, which was in extensive use at that 

 time — notably in the building of the cathedral at Salisbury. There is 

 nothing to indicate when the now destroyed chancel was erected. 

 During the latter half of the 15th century the church underwent 

 a complete re-modelling — the south aisle was re-built to a width 

 two or three feet in excess of that of the previously widened north 

 aisle, with a chapel at its east end, extending for nearly twenty 

 feet along the south side of the chancel. The south doorway was 

 originally put nearer to the middle, in the third bay from the west 

 end, as indicated by the masonry of the plinth, but its removal and 

 the substitution of the window must have taken place very shortly 

 after. The present south door is probably the old one, but re-faced 

 when the porch was built in 1841. Windows of a somewhat 

 similar type to the new ones on the south, but with four-centred 

 arches, were at the same time inserted in the north aisle wall. 

 Early in the 16th century, the present west tower was built, and 

 tlie meagreness and peculiarity of some of its features are not 

 without interest in showing the decline of Gothic detail. Note 

 the incongruous design of the tracery in the west window (which, 

 although new, has been copied from the old), the very Eenaissance 

 type of moulding to the outside string-course dividing the two 

 stages of the tower, and the square two-light windows, witliout 

 tracery, in the walls of the belfry stage, and two others lower down 

 on the south side. The tower is, at any rate, of good proportions, 

 as also is the arch opening into the nave, although the somewhat 

 peculiar arrangement of three orders of mouldings, which are 



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