By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 239 
supported is ingenious and effective. As before observed, the 
easternmost bays of the nave and aisles are narrow, about 6ft. Yin. 
wide, and arches are carried across to screen them off, massive 
buttresses being erected on the outside of the aisle walls to resist 
the thrust. The lantern is hexagon on plan, having flat sides on 
‘the north and south, and angles towards the east and west, the latter 
resting on the east wall of the nave and the arch thrown across as 
before described. To receive the north and south sides (M. and N., 
Plate III.) arches are thrown across at a high level between the 
east and west walls of this bay. The lantern is entirely open to 
‘the interior, and there is no indication of the use to which it was 
applied, for I can discover no trace of bells, not even the sanctus 
bell, having been hung in it. The general effect is very happy, 
and the bays of the aisles thus separated from the body of the 
Church form very perfect chapels, one of which, at least (the 
south), is shewn by the coeval piscina in the south wall (Fig. 1, 
Plate 1V.) and the corbels remaining over the position of the altar 
to have been designed for and used as a chantry. 
The nave originally had clerestory windows, the jambs of which 
are discernible on the interior, but these appear to have been built 
up when the present Post-Reformation roofs were put on the nave 
and aisles. This roof of the nave is of flatter pitch than that of 
the original, as indicated by the weather-mould on the lantern. 
Fifteenth century. The western tower is early fifteenth century 
in date, having been commenced, as the inscription tells us, in 
1435. The mouldings of this tower are of a bolder and earlier 
type than those of Purton, but the proportions are very similar, 
and the hollow-sided shaft forming the pedestal of the charming 
niche over the west window, has exactly the same “‘ feeling.” Below 
this niche the symbol of the patron saint, a St. Andrew’s x, occurs 
on each side of the west window, as shown in the view. To form 
_ these the stone projects from the face of the wall about half-an-inch, 
and, this, together with their plain form, has led to their being 
mistaken for the iron x plates of tie-rods, inserted to brace the 
tower. The angle buttresses are, like Purton, carried the full 
height, but the pinnacles are set to the angle of the buttresses 
