10 Notes on the Church of St. Mary 
and that another altar formerly stood in front of the archway into 
it from the transept is shewn by the beautiful piscina with shelf, at 
F, Fig. 1, Plate I. 
The removal of whitewash from the walls of the transepts re- 
vealed paintings of a red stone-jointed pattern of thirteenth century 
type. The vaulting of the chancel was somewhat similarly deco- 
rated, and, at a later date, star-points of scroll-work have been 
painted over this pattern round the bosses. An aumbry, or locker, 
was discovered in the south wall of the sacristy. 
The south porch has long been the subject of notice from the 
richness and delicacy of its outer archway. My first impressions 
of it are given in my report of 22nd October, 1881, of which the 
following is an extract:—“The walls and groining of the south 
porch and the inner doorway are coeval with the earlier work of 
nave and aisles, but the outer archway is an insertion of the 
Decorated period. This archway, in its original state, must have 
been exceedingly rich, it having possessed, in addition to the ball- 
flower ornament, a pierced cusping to its inner members, but this 
has been much mutilated. From the character of its pediment, and 
the manner in which it has been inserted in the old work, it bears 
the appearance of having been intended for an inner archway, 
rather than for its present position as an outer doorway.” The 
opinion thus expressed has been fully borne out by subsequent in- 
vestigation. During the execution of the works I had the privilege 
of discussing this feature on separate occasions with Mr. William 
White, F.S.A., and Mr. Henry Christian—both eminent archzolo- 
gists—and, although neither would at first admit that it was an 
insertion, both, after having fully considered all the points I sub- 
mitted (and on one of the occasions I refer to some hours were spent 
in the investigation), finally agreed in my view. On making 
further research we discovered that it was the archway of an adtar 
tomb removed from its original position and inserted here, of course 
at a post-Reformation period. This was shewn by the discovery of 
colour behind the mortar joints connecting it with the twelfth 
century work, and of the section of the moulded mensa of the altar 
at E, Fig. 3, Plate II., on which the inner moulding of the jamb 
