268 Notes on the Churches 
pointed. The piers between the arches are square, and have fluted 
caps with square abaci. 
It is probable there was no nave of stone at that time, but that 
either the chancel was added to an earlier nave of timber, which 
served the purpose for a time longer, or a temporary one was erected. 
However that may be there is no trace of work in this part earlier 
than about 1200—-1220, when a large Church with nave and aisles 
was commenced. The three western bays of the north arcade and 
the whole of the south arcade (the bays of which arcades, by the 
way, are not opposite each other) were first erected—these have the 
inner orders of the arches stopped on columns with moulded caps 
‘and bases; but the easternmost arch on the north side was erected 
some twenty or thirty years later, and it appears to have been cut 
through a blank wall; its inner order is stopped on carved corbels 
and the chamfer of the outer order carried down, with stops and 
plain chamfered base. There is no clerestory. 
At some date unknown the south aisle was pulled down and the 
arches filled in, but I believe that in this part the only alteration 
made during the recent restoration was the insertion of new windows. 
The north aisle is new, but narrow, and probably on the Early 
English foundations. 
The tower was not erected until late in the thirteenth century, 
and we have thus another very instructive instance of the slow 
process by which a village Church was built in ancient times. It 
is a magnificent and solidly-built structure of unusually broad 
dimensions. The two lower stages are faced with good close-jointed 
flint-work on the outside ; the top stage has a coarser facing and 
it may have been built after a few years’ pause, but the corbel-table 
under the parapet shews that it was completed before the close of 
the thirteenth century, when it was probably terminated by a 
pyramidal roof covered with shingles. The parapet was added in 
the fifteenth century. The stair turret is a prolongation, without 
break, of the east face of the tower (as at Imber) and is terminated 
at the belfry level by a stone hipped roof. The belfry windows are 
of two lights; the west doorway has well-designed jamb and arch 
mouldings, and a fifteenth century carved crucifix has been fixed 
