28 Notes on the Churches 
the chancel, which we shall see presently, and there are fragments 
built up in the aisle walls, but not 2a situ. The pitch of the roof 
of the early nave can be traced on the east face of the tower. 
The body of the Church appears to have been entirely re-built at 
about the middle of the fifteenth century—the nave, with clerestory, 
aisles, and north and south porches being of that date, and the 
hand of the designer of Road Church can be traced here in the 
columns of the arcades with the same crested capitals. There are 
squints in an unusual position on the east wall of the nave on each 
side of the chancel arch, their direction being towards the high 
altar. The original sanctus bell-cot remains on the east gable of 
the nave. The rood-screen has disappeared, but there are pronounced 
evidences of its having existed, and the two corbels in the east wall 
probably indicate its level. The Church having been rebuilt at the 
time when rood-screens were coming more into use the staircase for 
access was made a part of the plan, and the inconvenient arrange- 
ment usually met with where the rood-screen and stairs were inserted 
is avoided. The staircase is made quite a feature here, and is carried 
up the full height of the arch wall; it starts from the north aisle 
and has a doorway opening out on to the loft, which probably existed 
over the side altar there; a second door—the use of which is not 
apparent—looks into the chancel; and a third, higher up, afforded 
access to the principal loft across the chancel arch, whence the 
staircase is continued on to the roof. There are the usual accessories 
of side altars at the end of each aisle, the south aisle having a 
piscina, with shelf, in the south wall, and an aumbry in the east 
wall—also a squint pointing in the direction of the high altar. The 
remains in the north aisle comprise a niche and part of the reredos 
in the east wall, besides the piscina. 
There is a curious instance in this Church of how the old builders 
got over a mistake in setting out their work : the windows of the 
aisle are not properly arranged to correspond with the bays of the 
arcade, so that the roof-principals cut into the heads of the windows 
—a position in which it would seem to be impossible to get a corbel ; 
and more prosaic people might have done away with the brace 
altogether in such acase. But these old builders were above such 
