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By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 203 
of the type known as “ lierne,” the ribs springing from corbels in 
the angles and a central one on each side. The carving on the boss 
over the sanctuary depicts the coronation of the Virgin with symbols 
of the Evangelists around it; on the next is a head (?S. Veronica, 
or S. John Baptist, the patron saint of the Church ') and on another 
foliage. A string-course of pure “ Decorated” section is carried 
along under the window sills (rising to the level of that at the east end) 
and over the doors as labels. A second string occurs at the springing 
of the vaulting and is carried round over all the windows. ‘The east 
window is of four lights, with a niche in each jamb, the carvings of 
of which have been restored in wood. On each side of the altar is 
a recess with corbel and groined canopy, that on the south forming 
a piscina. On the south of the sacrarium are sedilia in three bays on 
different levels, stepped up towards the east. These have projecting 
pierced and traceried arms, and groined canopies with a double row of 
pinnacles, all with richly carved crockets and finials. This feature has 
_ the effect of being overloaded with carving, and in purity of taste it 
hardly seems to come up to the rest of the work in the chancel. 
_ There are two two-light windows in each side wall, a priests’ 
_ doorway on the south, and a doorway with moulded jambs leading 
: into the sacristy on the north. 
__. The priests’ door is sheltered on the outside by a stone porch of 
quite unique construction. The outer arch is moulded and cusped, 
and springs from shafts with moulded capitals—on the east side the 
_ jamb is supported by a buttress and the shaft is carried down to a 
_ splayed base, but on the west side it was apparently thought un- 
_ necessary to carry up a jamb, owing to the contiguity of the chancel 
buttress ; a corbel was, therefore, carried out from this buttress and 
the shaft follows the contour of it and dies on to the face of the 
latter ; a second corbel at right angles to it projects from the chancel 
wall and the shaft is carried round it and down to its own base. 
_ The ceiling of the porch is groined and the roof of ogee form is in 
stone with a verge moulding having carved crockets and finial.) 
~1From a description of this boss supplied to me by Archdeacon Lear since the 
above was written, I have no doubt that this head is that of the patron saint, 
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