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of the easternmost bay of the north aisle. There is a south porch 
and a modern vestry between this and the transept. 
Although no Norman work is visible above ground (except, 
perhaps, parts of the south transept wall), it is almost certain, from 
the narrowness of the aisles, that the Church stands on Norman 
foundations. I had been informed that there were Norman remains 
in the tower, but I have failed to discover them. ‘The nave, aisles, 
transepts, and tower, appear to have been re-built circa 1480, the 
chapels on the north and south of the chancel some fifty years after, 
and that against the north aisle later still. The clerestory appears 
to have been an afterthought, and traces of an earlier roof can be 
seen on the west face of the tower, but the alteration must have 
taken place before the Church was completed. 
The feature which strikes one at once inside the Church is the 
way in which the buttresses of the aisles are carried over to support 
the clerestory and at the same time to form arches to carry the 
aisle roofs. Another special feature is the richly-groined porch 
under the west window of the nave, the doorway of which has been 
mutilated by the head being squared out. There is a stoup by the 
south door. Stone bench seats are carried all round the Church 
inside. 
The turret staircase to the tower also led to the rood-loft, the 
exit doorway for which remains. The archways between the 
transepts and chapels ave of the panelled type of which we shall see 
several examples during our excursion. There is a piscina in the 
south transept, also a coeval recessed tomb. The two chapels have 
their original roofs; that on the north has lost its braces, but the 
corbels which supported them still remain in the east angles and 
over the arcade. There are niches in the east walls of both chapels ; 
those in the south chapel with their rich canopies appear to be 
entirely new, but they are presumably copied from original work, 
Thursday, August st. 
Cuurce or S. Gires. ImBer. 
This Church is one of the seven in the county dedicated in the 
