16 Notes on the Churches visited in 1892. 



being about the middle of the thirteenth century. There are two 

 striking" peculiarities in these arcades — the great width of the bays 

 and the height of the bases. That these peculiarities have been 

 observed in the later parts seems to indicate that the latter were re- 

 built on older foundations and were not extensions of the old building. 



The south aisle, with the exception of the west end, was re-built 

 when the Church was restored in 1864, but the door and the three- 

 light window in the south wall are old features reinstated. The 

 three single-light windows are, probably, also old (although the 

 scraping and renovation they have undergone renders identification, 

 impossible), if so they would point to this aisle having been built 

 at the time of the completion of the south arcade, and to the three- 

 light windows in the south and west walls having been inserted 

 some thirty or forty years later, when the west end of the nave was 

 erected. Taking the south aisle as the earliest part to be erected 

 at, say 1240, it is pretty clear that the whole of the outside walls, 

 nave, aisles, transepts and chancel were built at various stages 

 between this and the end of the thirteenth century. 



There is no evidence of what existed between the Transitional- 

 Norman nave and the later chancel, both of which, as well as the 

 transepts, existed before the erection of the present tower — there is 

 little doubt, however, that there was an early central tower. 



The three-light window on the south of the south aisle and the 

 somewhat similar one in situ in the west end, as well as the one in 

 the west end of the nave, exhibit remarkable types of form and 

 detail : the former one is very richly moulded and the mullions are 

 carried up to the arch as in Perpendicular work, but the mouldings, 

 the circular piercings, and the inside shafts indicate the date as 

 being about 1270 or 1280. The nine roof corbels of this aisle are 

 coeval, but have probably been collected from diflPerent parts and 

 re-used here. It will be seen on the outside that the old roof was a 

 lean-to, rising to the nave cornice, and not a span as at present ; 

 the roof of the nave was also of a higher pitch than now. A 

 somewhat remarkable string-course of quite a late section is 

 carried across under the west window of the nave and south aisle 

 on the outside, and it has been continued along the south in the 



