34 Notes on the Churches visited in 1892. 



one under the east window. At the west end of the nave, com- 

 municating with the tower, is a two-centred archway of two orders 

 of chamfers carried down to the floor — the inner ring of the arch 

 has disappeared j above this is a lancet window with bonnet inner 

 arch on the nave side, the object of which it is diflScult to conjecture. 

 The tower has buttresses to the lower stage only, with deep 

 plinths and unusually long weatherings ; a string divides the two 

 lower stages, in the lower there is a semi-arched west door, and in 

 the middle stage a lancet in west and south sides. The font of this 

 date has been removed from the rectory garden by the present 

 Rector, who, I am glad to learn, proposes to restore it to its place, 

 from which it was doubtless removed to make way for the modern one. 



Late in the thirteenth century a two-light window was inserted 

 near the east end of the aisle, with trefoiled heads and a quatrefoil 

 piercing over — the inner arch being of the two-centred segmental 

 form — there is no label on either face. With this exception there 

 is no work of the Decorated period in the Church. 



The next stage in the history of the building was the re-building 

 of the lower stage of the north wall of the nave and the erection of 

 the porch, which took place near the end of the fourteenth century 

 — at the commencement of the Per2:)endicular period. At first sight 

 the square heads and the form of tracery make the windows appear 

 later, but it is evident that the porch and nave wall were erected at 

 the same time, as one of the buttresses of the latter starts from the 

 side wall of the porch and is coeval with it. The combination of 

 the earlier type adopted for the porch and the later for the aisle is 

 intei-esting. The lower nave wall has good bold buttresses at its 

 lower stage. The porch has an outer doorway with ogee arch, the 

 label of which is carried up to a point without the usual foliated 

 terminal ; there are small square side lights, buttresses standing 

 square with the walls, and the original roof with richly-moulded 

 plates. Over the inner doorway is a niche containing a mutilated 

 figure. 



At about the middle of the fifteenth century the Church under- 

 went a great scheme of re-modelling. The usual Perpendicular 

 clerestory of five bays with three-light pointed windows with outside 



