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and yet the calcined stones used in the chancel seem to show that 
some part of it must have been burnt anterior to this. The most 
probable solution seems to be that the fire occurred early in the 
thirteenth century ; that the chancel was so much damaged by the 
fire as to necessitate re-building ; that only the roof of the nave was 
destroyed, and that it had been renewed before the date of the 
visitation. These discoveries, in any case, clearly show that in 
1220 the Church was of its full present length, and (as we shall 
presently see) with nave and aisles of nearly equal width to the 
present ones. 
The remains of the thirteenth century work inside the chancel 
are the westernmost piscina, with its shelf, in the south wall, and 
in the north wall the doorway and the curious arched recess formed 
in rubble masonry on the sanctuary floor-level. This is 3ft. 5in. 
wide, 1ft. 10in. high to the springing, 3ft. 9in. to the apex and 
1ft. lin. deep ; the arch is of radiating rubble stones, and of slightly 
pointed form. The recess is too small for a founder’s tomb, and 
from the fact that in 1556 an item in the churchwardens’ book 
alludes to a payment for “ makynge iiijer pynnes for the Sepulchre,” 
it was doubtless the Easter sepulchre. The doorway evidently 
opened into some building, probably a sacristy or a small chapel, 
on the north side of the chancel, as the rebate is on the outside. 
This door was close to the west wall of the adjunct, and the west 
jamb is not (like the east) of wrought stone, but rough masonry, 
and indicates where it was cut away when the wall was removed. 
There is a coeval piscina on the outside, eastward of the doorway, 
which was for use in the sacristy. The use for this doorway ceased, 
and the sacristy or chapel was removed, before the end of the 
thirteenth century, when a two-light Geometrical window was 
inserted over it, the sill of which formed a square head to the 
opening, too low for use as a doorway. ‘The present sill is not the 
original one, for it has no glass groove (which exists in the jamb 
and tracery, showing that the window was glazed and therefore 
opened to the outside clear of any building), and it was fixed on a 
higher level when the doorway again came into use—probably in 
quite recent times. It could not have been used for the present 
