Risa 
By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 233 
buttresses to any part of the Church. In the centre of the south 
bay of the porch there is on the inside of the east wall a beautiful 
niche, which is shown on Plate II., Fig. 1. It consists of a recess 
1) din. wide, rectangular on plan, constructed apparently for a single 
detached figure: the sides are panelled the full height, as also the 
soffit and the part of the back above the figure. The head of the 
niche is square and this was richly traceried, the tracery being 
carried down to the level of the commencement of the back 
panelling (over one-third of the full height), but much of it has 
been destroyed. Every part of this niche, as well as the spandrels 
of the arch spanning the porch, bears traces of the original colouring 
in red, yellow, and blue. 
The priest’s room over the porch is approached by a turret staircase 
at the north-west angle. It retains the original doorway with ogee 
head, and fireplace with carved pater in the mouldings of the 
jambs ; but the roof is modern, and its pitch has evidently been 
lowered, the original level of it being shown by the weather-mould 
on the chimney. The latter is eoeval with the staircase, and has a 
coping similarly embattled. The window shown in the view was 
inserted at the recent restoration, and there is no evidence of what 
existed previously. That this room was used for habitation appears 
to be borne out by the curious sink-stone at the top of the stairs, 
and just outside the priest’s room door, with the spout carried 
through the wall of the turret to the outside, as shown in the sketch. 
The north aisle. In the wall of the central bay is the doorway 
previously referred to, now built up; it is remarkable for the high 
level at which it is placed, the sill being 3ft. above the floor (and 
above those of the other two doorways), and the jambs not being 
carried down on the outside shews that this was its original position, 
though there is nothing in the fall of the ground or other local 
circumstance, to suggest a reason for it. To the west of this, on 
the inside, there is a niche of somewhat similar character to that at 
the porch entrance, but smaller and plainer, the reeess being ouly 
94in. wide, and the back and reveals plain: the soffit is ogee in 
form, following the line of the arch in the tracery of the square 
head, which is intact. Here, also, there are traces of colour, 
