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the nave at this time, was commenced, and the old stone corbel-heads 
of the roof remain. 
The Perpendicular work here is of a good solid type, the weather- 
ings and mouldings are bold, the parapets of the aisles are embattled 
and once had diagonal pinnacles over the buttresses ; and one on the 
north side, where no buttress occurs, is terminated byashield. The 
staircase of the tower is carried up above the parapet and covered 
with a pointed roof of stone ; the parapet of the tower is poor com- 
pared with the rest, and the pinnacles are missing. There are 
buttresses in the centre of the west, south, and east walls of the 
tower, the former starting from the aisle wall and the latter stopping 
under the window; a similar feature (which is more usual in early 
than in late work) occurs under the west window of the nave. 
Much of the work at this point has been re-built and modern 
diagonal buttresses have been added. There is a coeval doorway in 
the north aisle, but the porch on the south is new. The north 
window in the aisle and the east window of the north transept have 
been much modernised. 
The chancel was built in the latter part of the thirteenth century, 
and the north side with its two lancet windows (the westernmost 
one of which is lower than the other) remain unaltered. On the 
south side the Perpendicular re-modelling involved much re-building, 
for although the thirteenth century priest’s door remains, the use of 
oyster shells in the joints leads me to think that it was re-built, and 
this view is strengthened by the crippled appearance of the arch, 
the obvious alteration of the label, and the absence of any appearance 
of alteration round the two square-headed windows, as would 
have been the case if they had been merely inserted. Such alteration 
is clearly seen round the three-light east window. The thirteenth 
century wall on the north side has thin (? Roman) tiles built into it, 
but these do not appear in the south wall. The thirteenth century 
buttresses of the chancel remain—one under the east window with 
a string carried across above it. (I have never before found oyster 
shells in thirteenth century masonry, and I shall keep a keen look- 
out for them in the future.) 
The chancel arch is of two orders of chamfers, the inner one 
