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By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 231 
were probably built at about the end of the reign of Edward III. 
The tower presents a singular combination of Decorated and Per- 
pendiclar forms and details, the alternate sunk-chamfer and hollow 
of the piers, and the groining of the lower stage being distinctly 
earlier in feeling than the upper stage, which might be taken for 
work of the middle of the fifteenth century, though evidently carried. 
out in continuation of the former, as the spire with its bold roll 
indicates. The squinches of the spire have square pinnacles within 
the parapet. The upper stage of the tower is open to the spire, 
and has two corbels low down on the east and west faces inside, and 
larger ones at a higher level on the north and south sides, which 
probably supported bells before the addition of the western tower. 
There is a door opening into the south transept, and lower down 
on the north and east sides are built-up windows, the intention of 
which is not quite apparent, as they would be blocked by the ad- 
jacent roofs, which, as the weather-tablings indicate, retain their 
original pitch. There are two-light windows in the four sides at a 
higher level. This stage is approached by a turret stair from the 
north transept, and the steps are carried on to a second door, above 
the higher bell-corbels. A bit of Norman roll-moulding is seen on 
the third step from the floor of this stage, which appears to support 
the idea that this tower displaced work of that period. 
The transepts retain their original roofs. A piscina (which once 
had a shelf) in the wall of the south transept indicates the existence 
of an altar here, and this is further shewn by the archway in the 
east wall, and communicating with the chapel, having evidently 
been constructed with regard to it, for the chamfer of the south 
jamb is stopped at 4ft. from the floor (which would be about the 
level of the mensa including the step), with the apparent object of 
the altar coming out to the face of the jamb. Over the position 
of the altar is a squint of a triple quatrefoil, with the splay of the 
jamb on the east side inclined slightly to the north, in the direction 
of the altar of the chapel. 
The only probable indications of an altar in the north transept 
are the two corbel heads in the inside faces of the jambs of the 
later and peculiarly flat archway in the east wall, opening into the 
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