276 Notes on the Churches 
_ turret stairease, which is coeval with the alteration of the tower 
(and not with the Norman work as Canon Jones gives it in his 
plan), carried up within it, causing a great obstruction. The door- 
way for entrance to this staircase, and the one which opened on to 
the rood loft can be easily traced, and the corbels which carried the 
loft over the transept chapel, &c., remain. 
There are a few bits of old glass of late fifteenth century date 
remaining in the windows of the transepts, that on the south having 
the letters I.B. (which Canon Jones regards as pointing to Sir Jobn 
Baynton), whilst an angel with censer, and the figure of S. Gabriel 
with the inscription “ Ave plena gratia Dominus tecum,” &c., indicates 
the subject of the Annunciation as having been here. The north 
transept was, then, probably the lady chapel. The two three-light 
windows in these transepts, though slightly different in design, are 
the work of the same period. 
The upper part of the tower was not completed until after these 
were finished—or about 1480. The tower is without buttresses, 
and the turret was finished level with the parapet, the raising of it 
is modern. At about this time the chapel on the south side of the 
chancel was erected, and the arms of Sir Richard Beauchamp, Lord 
S. Amand (who died in 1508) in the parapet, point to him as the 
probable founder of it. The similarity of the rich work of this 
parapet to that at Bromham strikes one at once, and suggests that 
they are the work of the same hand. It is interesting to note that 
exactly the same thing was done here as at Bromham in building 
the chapel—viz., the south transept was incorporated with it; the 
walls were raised; the high-pitched roof altered and the elaborate 
parapet of the chapel carried round. ‘There are, here, pinnacles at 
the angles and in centre of the gable. The chapel has good four- 
light windows in the east and west walls, with bits of the old glass 
in the former. The arch into the chancel has the same corbelled 
treatment as that between the south aisle and transept; the one 
between the transept and chapel is modern, as are also the roofs of 
both. 
After the chapel the aisles appear to have been re-built. This 
work is debased, and the doorways especially indicate this, The 
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