By C. E. Ponting, P.S.A. 261 



west arch was re-built and widened when the Church wa8 restored. 

 Although the transepts have been much altered since, there is 

 abundant evidence that they were re-built with the tower in the 

 thirteenth century ; the walls and buttress of the north transept 

 and much of the east wall and plinth of the south transept remain 

 of this work. The south transept has a coeval doorway opening 

 into the chancel aisle, and a string-course which is cut oflP square by 

 this door is carried along the east wall ; there are also remains of a 

 lancet window on the outside. 



The nave arcades look somewhat later than the chancel and tower 

 work, but they are not later than temp. Edward I. ; they have tall 

 octagonal columns on high moulded bases supporting pointed arches 

 of three orders of chamfers with moulded labels. The arcades have 

 been partly re-built, the bases renewed, and the surface of the old 

 work has been badly scraped. The two east responds on the south 

 and the west one on the north side have clustered shafts carrying 

 the inner order of the arch, the remaining one is octagonal. 



The two massive buttresses which flank the west end of the nave 

 are of about the same period as the arcades, although their different 

 heights seem to indicate that they were not carried up at one time, 

 and a coeval string-course runs across the west ends of the aisles 

 and part of the nave, but is broken into here by the insertion of the 

 later doorway. 



The south transept appears to have been altered in the fourteenth 

 century when the south wall above the plinth with its tall buttresses 

 having five set-offs, and the adjacent parts of the east wall, were 

 re-built. There is a coeval corbel in the east wall, probably inserted 

 to receive a figure by the altar; also a square aumbry in the south 

 wall. Towards the end of this century the low upper stage of the 

 tower was added, having a two-light window in each face. 



Towards the middle of the fifteenth century the clerestory of the 

 nave was added, and the weather-mould on the west face of the tower 

 marks the high pitch of the earlier roof. The clerestory has three 

 two-light square-headed windows on each side, placed ocer ike piers, 

 as in the case of the earlier example of the chancel. The waggon- 

 head roof over the nave with its carved wall-plates is coeval witK 



