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piscina are good specimens of Early English work, and I assign the 
moulding of the plinth course to the same period. 
The east window is a three-light one with reticulated tracery —it 
was prepared to receive a label, but this has probably been lost in some 
subsequent re-building of the east gable. There are two two-light 
square-headed windows of the same type in each side wall and a 
priest’s door on the south. Diagonal buttresses are placed at the 
outer angles and there is a central buttress on the north. The 
chancel arch spans the entire width of the building and the chamfers 
die out on the face of the wall. To resist the thrust of this arch 
large buttresses 4ft. 3in. wide on the face and 5ft. Yin. in projection, 
having three set offs, have been erected outside the north and south 
walls—(one of these has been re-built), but even this precaution has 
not compensated for the yielding foundation, and the walls are still 
spreading. 
Under the westernmost window on the south side is the smallest 
specimen of the low-side-window I have ever met with. It is an 
opening about 4in. wide and 12in. high, with a narrow splay on the 
outside face and a deep splay inside, apparently intended to give 
room for ringing the hand-bell against it—the low position of this 
window telling distinctly in favour of this theory of the use of such 
windows. ‘This little window is constructed quite independently of 
the one above, and it could not have been intended for light; as it is 
blocked up we cannot see whether, as is probable, there is a rebate 
for a shutter. 
Inside the easternmost window on this side of the chancel the sill 
is carried down to form sedilia, and near it is a fine thirteenth century 
piscina of Purbeck marble. The corbel of the bowl is of unique 
design, consisting of two skates, or similar fish, one overlapping the 
other, and each with its tail turned over the back—the spines down 
the centre of the back being carefully cut. Around the top of this 
runs the moulded edge, part of which is continued on each side on 
the corbel of the arch-moulding. The arch is a trefoiled one. The 
shelf is a later insertion. 
There are two original corbels in the east wall of the chancel. 
The tower appears to have been erected soon after the re-building 
