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north. The lancets have inner arches — the mouldings on which 

 have been so made up with plaster that they are unreliable — the 

 sedilia are of three bays stepped up towards the east although the 

 arches over the whole are level — these arches are of trefoil form 

 supported on shafts with moulded caps and bases, and with moulded 

 labels over ; further eastward is a coeval piscina of the same type, 

 the bowl has been cut away. The chancel originally had no but- 

 tresses, and those on the north and south, and the diagonal ones at 

 the angles, appear to have been added in the fourteenth century, 

 when so much other work was done about the Church. The north 

 wall was re-built (the old windows having apparently been re-fixed 

 in their old positions with the easternmost one kept higher) and the 

 east window inserted at the restoration in 1860. The previous east 

 window was a Perpendicular insertion — this has been removed to 

 the west end of the nave; the sills of the original triple lancets can 

 be traced below that of the modern window. The arras still pre- 

 served in the old glass in one of the lancets are those of Thomas 

 Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III., who married a 

 Longespee, and, in his wife's right, became Earl of Salisbury. 



Of the rest of the Church built during the Early English period 

 we have no part left standing as first erected (with the exception of 

 part of the porch), but there is no lack of evidence from the beautiful 

 features of that period which are preserved that there was built at 

 that time at least a porch — and probably also a nave, unless the 

 Norman one remained.' One of the two lancet windows in the 

 north transept and the magnificent outer doorway of the tower are 

 coeval with the chancel work, but have obviously been re-built, and 

 it is doubtful whether they are in their original positions. If we 

 examine the doorway carefully we shall see that the dog-tooth 

 ornament of the outside member could not have been cut in situ (as 

 was the invariable mode of working it), but many of the stones 

 have been shortened since they were worked by cutting off parts of 

 the ornaments — this is particularly the case on the east side and at 



* Mr. Fane states tliat tlie Norman pilaster buttresses existed here in 1S53 and 

 belonged to the original Church restored in Early English times. 



