By C. E. Ponting, F.8.A. 211 
tower, were probably not completed until after the first quarter of the 
fifteenth century. The plinth-mould of the nave is continued round 
it, and it has the same far-projecting diagonal buttresses, but the 
latter have a peculiarity in the narrowing of the upper stage. The 
gable is similarly set back behind the parapet, but the latter is not 
embattled like that of the nave, and the cornice is poorer. The 
south window, of five lights, is of a distinctly later type and indi- 
cates in a marked manner the Perpendicular characteristics of mullion 
carried up vertically, and of transom in the tracery. The mullions 
and tracery are unusually light and elegant. In the east wall is a 
three-light square-headed window which is an insertion of some fifty 
years later.} 
The tower is carried on four moulded arches, the arch mouldings 
being carried down the jambs without intervening caps and stopping 
on a splay; there are moulded octagonal bases below this. The 
lower stage is vaulted in stone, the angle ribs springing from corbels 
carved with curious devices—one being a dog with three rabbits. 
The spaces between the tower and the nave walls on each side are 
spanned by half, or “ flying” arches, opening into the transepts— 
each arch springs from the side wall and abuts against the tower at 
its apex: the one on the south has a double inner arch, and a thicker 
wall above, the object of which is to gain the passage over, leading 
from the turret stairs, which are approached from the nave, to the 
tower. In order to gain the same west wall face on the north side 
the wall is corbelled out, one corbel being carved with two leaves. 
The abutment of the tower arches is strengthened on the west face 
by buttresses of three stages with slight weatherings, the outer edges. 
canted off to form a semi-octagon on plan: these probably occupy 
the position of the responds of the earlier arcades. 
All this part of the tower was probably carried up with the work 
1 The south transept which the present one displaced was converted into a chantry 
chapel in 1322 by John Alan, and the transept is still called the “ Knighton 
aisle,” after the locality of the lands with which it was endowed. As this chantry 
continued in existence until the Reformation it is probable that the transept 
was re-built by the successors of the founder, which accounts for its slightly later 
_ date than the general alterations of the body of the Church. 
