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the abacus rounded, a distinct advance in style, and the arches are 
rather more pointed. 
The clerestory on both sides appears to have been erected on the 
completion of the south arcade. 
Then, before reaching the chancel, the builders seem to have 
changed their original design, and decided to have a north transept, 
so they prepared for it by re-constructing the easternmost bay on 
that side in the later style then prevailing with a more pointed and 
chamfered arch, but re-using the label-mould over. This arch and 
respond (the latter with canted abacus) are coeval with the chancel 
arch, which, however, has no label. If any proof is needed that 
the north aisle was shortened to carry out the transept, and that 
the latter was not originally intended, it may be found in the fact : 
that the clerestory window of that bay is blocked up by the roof 
on the outside, and that the arch between aisle and transept cuts 
into the arch of the arcade. 
The chancel was next proceeded with (before the erection of the 
transept), and the four lancet windows, the piscina, and the string 
course remain of the original features of about 1220—as also the 
corbel table of the eaves on the north side. The present doorway 
is a late fourteenth century insertion, and has the carved paterzx of 
that period, but it probably supplanted an earlier doorway, as the 
string appears to have been returned over it. The north and east 
sides of the chancel are new work, and Canon Baynham informs me 
that a priest’s door on the north side was done away with in erecting 
it. This work appears, however, to be a good copy of the 
original. 
The north transept appears to have been next built, and indicates 
the dawn of tracery in the north window. The single lancet in the 
west wall is coeval, whilst that in the east wall is a !ater insertion, 
There were, of course, north and south aisles at that time, but 
the present windows are modern, and it is questionable whether 
much of the old walls remains, 
The Church was not, so far as can be seen, considered complete 
until this stage had been reached, its erection having thus occupied 
nearly a century; and this may be taken as a typical, though 
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