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central tower (which is reported to have taken place in 1628), and : 
the consequent re-building of the ruin caused by it. 
We have, however, first, the distinct remains of a cruciform 
Norman Church at least as early as the middle of the twelfth 
century, of which we can trace nave and aisles of five bays and 
transepts, with the piers of a tower at the erossing. The narrowness 
of the present aisles points to the conclusion that the walls are on 
the Norman foundations—the south doorway is probably in situ 
(the outer portion only having been re-modelled at a later period), 
and it presents a remarkable specimen of a Norman segmental 
arch. 
Then we have what I will call “ Transitional Norman ” work (for 
it is earlier than the thirteenth century) in the western part of the 
chancel and the chapels—evidence of which we shall presently see 
in the buttresses on the outside, and which exists in the bases and 
lower parts of the columns of the side arcades—a distinct change in 
the character of the stonework is traceable in the south-west pillar 
of the chancel; this might, of course, be accounted for by the fall 
of the tower, but it is significant that the pilaster buttress in the 
south chapel finishes at this level. 
Late in the fourteenth century the part of the chancel eastward 
of the Transept arches appears to have been re-built, and the north 
and south chapels re-modelled and partly re-built, but not wholly so, 
as the insertion of windows into old walls is distinctly traceable. 
The chapels and north transept still retain their old roofs, but 
that of the south transept has been superseded by one of higher 
pitch. 
Shortly following this—early in the fifteenth century—a chapel 
was added to the north side of the north aisle, and the piscina there 
shows it to have been a chantry. Then came the period of fully- 
developed Perpendicular, in which the north aisle and porch (with 
its beautiful fan-vaulting) were built. Then, probably, the south 
aisle and porch (which have since been re-built) and the addition 
of a clerestory to the nave, with the still existing roof, the pendants 
of which indicate its late character. 
The roof of the chancel was probably put on at about the end of 
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