Notes on the Churches. 2538 
Whilst on this part I would call attention to the very marked 
evidence which exists in this Church of the floor having been laid 
to a slope following the natural level of the site—an expedient 
frequently adopted in early structures. In this case the fall 
was from north to south. The sill of the north door is 2ft. 6in. 
above the present floor-level, and the rough appearance of the bases 
of the odder piers of the north arcade shows that the ground around 
them has been lowered and the foundations exposed; whilst the 
lower level at which the worked stone commences on the respond 
indicates the probability that this slope was done away with when 
_ the fifteenth century western arch was inserted. Before leaving the 
arcades I may mention the arch carried across the south aisle at 
the point where buttressed by the porch and forming a good 
support to the arcade, 
The wall of the south aisle was raised and a two-light window 
built in the added part, high up at the west end, at about the middle 
_of the fifteenth century. A corbel of the old roof of this aisle exists 
in the arcade wall; the three-light windows inserted in the south 
_ wall are apparently of seventeenth century Gothic, and have square 
heads. The square-headed two-light window in the east wall 
without arch or cusping, is singular, but it has, I think, been 
tampered with. 
I said that the door and east end and west windows of the north 
aisle were thirteenth century work, but this is not the case with the 
‘walls and the rest of the windows and on a first glance this part 
‘presents somewhat of a problem, which I solve in the following 
way :—when the beautiful fifteenth century tower was built the 
north wall of the aisle was evidently re-duz/t, for the tower plinth 
‘is carried along this part, but the early window in the west end and 
the north door were built in, for their label moulds indicate an earlier 
So 
: 
the constructional stones in the usual way. The east wall of 
is aisle was not re-built at this time. Here, too, are diagonal 
buttresses which are later than the west window. The three 
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