By C. E. Tonting, F.S.A. 85 



labels was erected over the nave arcade, and this was repeated on 

 the north side by raising the wall which had been erected sixty or 

 seventy years before. The north side has, therefore, two stages of 

 windows — the lower square and the upper pointed — a set-ofF with 

 weathering in the wall showing the point of alteration. The corbels 

 of the roof put on at that time remain, but the roof has given way 

 to a flat ceiling which is a great disfigurement to the Church. The 

 upper stage of the tower was added at the same time with the 

 clerestory — it has a two-light square-head window in each side and 

 embattled parapet with good gargoyles at the angles. The nave 

 has a cornice and an embattled parapet carried up over the east 

 gable and returning along the sides to the tower. The gable cross 

 is missing. 



A further work carried out at this time was the addition o£ the 

 chapel at the south of the chancel as a continuation of the aisle— 

 the line at which the Early English work stops and the Perpendicular 

 begins can be traced, but there is no dividing arch. The date 1633 

 is cut on the wall at this point. There is a three-light square-head 

 window in the south wall with a wood lintel inside, also a four-light 

 east window having cusping only to the central compartment of the 

 tracery. The archway between the chancel and chapel is a good 

 four-centred one with semi-octagonal jambs having caps with carved 

 paterae. With the erection of this chapel a re-modelling of the aisle 

 took place, a similar window to that in the former was inserted 

 in about the centre of the south wall of the latter, and a uniform 

 cornice with parapet was carried round both. The chapel, like the 

 earlier work of the aisle, has no buttress. (The old roofs have 

 disappeared and flat ceilings taken their places.) At this time a 

 rood-screen was erected, which was reached by a staircase formed in 

 the east respond of the nave arcade and projecting into the aisle. 

 The staircase remains but the doorways are blocked up. A part of 

 this screen is retained to divide the aisle from the chapel; other 

 portions are made up in the choir stalls. This work is of a most 

 refined type, the carving of the vine and other foliated patterns 

 being beautifully designed, crisp and well cut. 



There are many fragments of old glass left. In the tracery of 



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