28 Notes on the Churches visited in 1893. 



The doorway itself is a very typical piece of Saxon work — it 

 has the usual long-and-short work in the jambs, an impost of two 

 rudely-worked chamfers ; the head formed out of a single stone 

 rudely shaped as an arch, with two raised cable-pattern bands over, 

 stopping on a plain roll. The form and proportions of the opening 

 are characteristic : the width is only 2ft. 5in. at the base, and it 

 tapers to 2ft. 4in. at the impost, while the width of the arched part 

 above the impost is only 1ft. 9in. 



The building of the tower has obliterated the quoin at the north- 

 west, but the work up to the tower buttress is Saxon. The piece 

 of sculpture placed inside the doorway appears to be coeval — two 

 heads biting a ball. 



At about the end of the twelfth century a north aisle of two bays 

 was thrown out from the eastern half of the nave, and the chancel 

 and chancel arch built, or the whole of the nave and chancel, except 

 the part before described, may have been re-built at this time. The 

 chancel arch has two orders of chamfers on both arch and jamb, 

 with square impost and no label ; the arches of the arcade are 

 pointed and similarly chamfered. The shaft and base of the central 

 column are cylindrical, whilst the carved capital is octagonal ; the 

 arches are carried at the responds on corbel shafts with capitals of 

 similar date (one of which has been renewed) . The aisle itself has 

 been quite recently renewed. 



Of the chancel of this period only portions of the north and east 

 walls remain, w^ith one small lancet window in situ in the former. 

 This window has its sill high up from the floor, and the opening is 

 only 7in. wide ; it has no label, and the deep splay on the inside is 

 carried round the arch. The rest of the chancel, including the east 

 window, has been re-built, and much of it is new work. A new 

 organ chamber with its arch occupies part of the north side. The 

 inside arch of the east window of this is old. A two-light thirteenth 

 century window has been replaced in the south wall of the sanctuary, 

 and its inner sill carried down as sedilia ; near it is a coeval piscina 

 with trefoil arch and circular bowl. 



The south side of the nave, although re-built, is full of interest. 

 The doorway is apparently coeval with the aisle arcade and chancel 



