258 Notes on the Churches 
roof is here intact with the exception of the loss of its terminals, 
so that we can clearly see what the chancel was formerly—the stone 
ribs overlap laterally to cover the joints. The ceiling is a barrel- 
vault of stone with cusped ribs; the outer doorway has a square 
head, with niche over, and is flanked by pinnacles—the peculiar 
design of the gable cross is deserving of notice. The inner doorway 
is coeval with the aisle, and is remarkable for an unusually late 
example of the dog-tooth ornament, used in the same group of 
mouldings with the twig ornament before mentioned. The label 
mould is a very bold and good one, and the cornice along the 
springing of the porch vault is carried up over the doorway. 
The nave arcades and clerestory are a little later than the aisle, 
and the arch across the south aisle which abuts against the arcade 
(but does not intersect with it) looks earlier than the arcade itself. 
An arch of a plainer description is carried in a similar way across 
the north aisle. This aisle is of fifteenth century date and has one 
original window and one new one. The roof is a good specimen of 
Jacobean oak-work with billet mould and pendants, and bears the 
date 1631. 
In the eastern responds of the nave arcades are two openings— 
on the north side a doorway, and on the south a squint, but both 
have been so disguised by modern plaster-work that it is difficult 
to identify their original form. 
The south transept was probably a chantry, for it has a piscina 
coeval with its erection, although ¢47s has also been disguised by the 
modern plasterer. The windows of this transept have inside detached 
shafts and arches, and there was probably a canopied niche of their 
full height between the two in the east wall, for its corbel remains, 
and the side mouldings are continued down. The roof of this 
transept bears the date 1787. 
The tower was built in the latter half of the fifteenth century ; 
the west window is of a somewhat unusual type, and the doorway 
under retains its original oak door and iron-work. There is a 
pretty niche ou the outside by the side of this doorway, with an ogee 
arch, the tracery of which has been mutilated. The stair turret is 
square on plan and terminates at the belfry level. 
