By C. Fj. Ponting, F.S.A. 265 



There is no evidence as to whether a tower was carried up over these 

 arches. On the north side of the nave are the splays of two lancet 

 windows, and a trace of one on the south, the chancel retains its 

 three small lancets with labels over on the north, also a flat buttress 

 at the north-east angle returning on the east face, and a coeval 

 doorway on the south, now blocked up. The rubble walling at the 

 east end of the chancel and the thirteenth century string (now 

 intersected by a modem window) show the east window to have 

 been at an unusual height. A chamfered string runs along under 

 the windows on the south side, but there is no plinth to the side 

 walls, this being confined to the qaoias. 



Very little of the transepts remains, but they were probably 

 largely re-built late in the fourteenth century. A doorway of this 

 date inserted in the thirteenth century south wall of the nave and 

 intersecting the string-course, still remains, with a fifteenth century 

 niche over it. 



The alterations here during the Perpendicular period are less than 

 usual, and do not include any extension of plan. At the west end 

 of the nave a door with three-light window over was inserted circa 

 1500, and a buttress was carried out from the north-west angle— 

 this work is in coursed masonry, and the junction with the Early- 

 English rubble wall portions of its plinth is clearly traceable. Two 

 buttresses were added to support the north wall of the nave, which 

 had already become leaning. A three-light square-headed window 

 (now blocked up) was put in the south wall of the chancel when 

 the greater part of this wall was re-built, but the earlier priests' 

 door was not disturbed. 



There is an old sun-dial on the south-west quoin of the nave. 



In more recent times two buttresses have been erected against 

 the south wall of the nave to serve the same purpose here as the 

 fifteenth century ones added to the north wall ; a miserable roof, 

 hipped at the east end, has been put on the chancel, and the chancel 

 arch built up, with a doorway facing the entrance. The west wall 

 of the nave has been pulled down above the top of the buttresses, 

 and much of the side walls, the wrought stonework of the windows 

 on the north side appears to have been taken away. 



