By C. E. Poniing, F.S.A. 253: 



The south wall of the chancel is also thirteenth century work 

 and contains two lancet windows of that period placed at different 

 levels, the westernmost being kept low, apparently, for the use of a 

 hand-bell, and there are marks as if for a shutter. (The north and 

 east walls were re-built in 1840, when the east window was con- 

 structed, as the date below it indicates, the springers to the gable 

 copings with curious double-head corbels being re-used.) 



The proportions of the chancel are very uncommon, it is only 

 16ft. lOin. long by 18ft. 6in. wide: this shortness is doubtless due 

 to the encroachment upon it in the fourteenth century by the founder 

 of the south chantry, who appears to have lengthened the nave at 

 the same time. The south aisle (although much of it has probably 

 been re-built) is an interesting feature, and the features are entirely 

 of one date — about the middle of the century, the same plinth and 

 parapet are carried round, there are two two-light square-headed 

 windows besides a doorway in the south wall and one at each end, 

 diagonal butti'esses at the angles and two square ones on the south 

 side. Under the westernmost window in the south wall is a recessed 

 tomb containing the mutilated figure of a female lying on her left 

 side. The Rev. T. Miles ^ states (in 1869) that it was formerly 

 situated near the centre of this wall but removed to make room for 

 the tablet dated 1708, and Dr. .Baron,^ writing in 1881, says "The 

 peculiarity [of this effigy] is that the lady is represented recumbent 

 on the left side, and in the attitude of prayer, apparently respecting 

 the altar in the same south aisle. Tradition says it formerly oc- 

 cupied a position about the middle of the south wall . . . under 

 a recess which was destroyed to make way for a glaring monument, 

 and that being found out of place in the restoration of 1840 a new 

 recess was made for it where it now lies : " — these two statements 

 agree that the monument was once further east. It is coeval with 

 the aisle and probably that of the foundress, and the piscina (which 

 has been restored) shows that this aisle was erected as a chantry. 



In the fifteenth century a clerestory with three two-light windows 



* TFilts Arch. Mag., vol. xii., p. 111. 

 - Ibid, vol XX., p. 121. 



