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there is a buttress dividing the bays of the south wall, and diagonal 
buttresses are placed at the angles—all the buttresses being gabled 
and having a moulded plinth. That the structure is coeval with 
the transept is shown by the upper plinth-mould of the latter being 
carried up over it and forming a drip-course to its lean-to roof. .The 
vaulting ribs are carried on shafts in the centre and corbels at the 
angles, This structure is so unlike anything else I have seen that 
I can only conjecture it was erected for a tomb, probably for the 
founder of this chapel-transept. A Purbeck slab ornamented with 
a cross now lies under it, but it has not necessarily any connexion 
with it. 
The part of the tower above the four arches is certainly part of 
the great re-building of the Church; the corbels carrying the 
beams of the floor of the second stage are of good fourteenth 
century design. Mr. J. E. Nightingale, F.S.A., has lent me a 
copy of an old terrier of the Pembroke estates bearing a perspective 
sketch of the south-west view of this Church which he considers may 
be taken as a rough outline of the general features of Bishopstone 
Church at about 1580. This shows the tower surmounted hy a spire, 
apparently of wood covered with lead, of which no traces remain. 
The porch has been re-built, but the old stone staircase indicates 
that there was originally, as now, a room over, and the old corbel 
for the niche has been re-used, as well as some old arch stones and 
the gable cross. A stoup has been cut in the moulded jambs of the 
- inner doorway. Some curious incised stones of early work are built 
into the east wall of the porch, The old oak door taken from the 
south entrance some years ago is hung on the north side of the 
nave, and there are two corbels for the rood-beam in the east wall, 
one on each side of the tower arch. 
The font is a fifteenth century one, much spoilt by scraping. 
There is much beautiful wood-work in the internal fittings, ap- 
parently French and Spanish; the walls of the sanctuary are cased 
and the sacristy door enriched with it, and the choir stalls, prayer- 
desk and pulpit constructed of it—on the latter is a fragment of 
English work, a bit of cresting, probably of a screen. The panels 
of the pulpit have fine carvings, one representing Our Lord in the 
