216 Edington Church. 
the elevation, it appears that the outer sills of the windows of these 
two bays are on this side, kept higher—the splays being flatter to 
admit of it, and that the string eourse which is carried all round the 
chancel and transepts elsewhere becomes here a mere weather-mould 
over the roof of this adjunct, as well as being at a higher level. 
The westernmost window is also some four or five inches higher 
altogether, a break being made in the upper string forming the 
label. ‘Then the plinth which elsewhere was carried round the 
chancel and transepts, never existed here at all, and only occurs on 
the face of the intervening buttress and for some six inches on the 
return. There is a built-up window in the buttress at the west-end 
of the chamber, and an archway for passage through the intervening 
one also blocked up. The three buttresses have had their south 
faces re-built, and probably set back, so that their present projection 
does not represent the width of the chamber, but it was evidently 
not much in excess of this—hence apparently the splaying off of 
this door jamb. 
When I had got thus far in my investigations, I looked for some 
indication of other openings in the chancel wall, and on critically 
examining the jointing I found that there are two built-up squints 
or windows (with a mullion between) which once looked into the 
sanctuary. The monument of Sir W. Lewys effectually prevents 
an examination of these features on the inside, but from the fact 
that the string course under the windows stops, at about two feet 
from the last. window, against what is apparently the remains of a 
pinnacle, similar in section to those flanking the niches, I conjecture 
that there was a group of features under this window, which 
probably included sedilia and piscina, and of which these openings 
formed part, as at Dorchester, Oxon. [A portion of the sedilia has 
since been opened out—each compartment has a circular back and 
groined ceiling, and traces of a canopy similar to that over the 
doorway near it.] There are also two larger openings divided by a 
mullion, but these were probably only recesses, or aumbries, as there 
is no sign of them on the inside. The object of this passage-like 
chamber opens the field for much conjecture. It must have been 
too narrow for a sacristy, and I do not incline to the Leper theory, 
