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upon it. These chapels were built originally, as we have intimated 
in a previous page (35), in the 14th or 15th century, to supply the 
wants of those who lived at a distance from the town, and the duties 
in them were performed by Chaplain Priests—(Capellani they are 
commonly termed),—who were under the direction and control of 
the Vicar. 
The Parish Church, in its present state, consists of a Chancel,— 
Nave,—North Aisle,—a Tower at the west end,—a small Chantry 
Chapel at the south-east corner of the Nave,—and a South Porch. 
The building seems originally to have consisted only of a Chancel, 
about two-thirds as long as the present one, and a.Nave of the same 
dimensions as now. Judging from the appearance of the masonry, 
and tlie manner in which the present Tower is united at its south- 
east angle with the body of the Church, there would seem to have 
been also a Tower to the original building, a portion of what was 
probably the angular turret to carry the staircase still remaining. 
All this was no doubt the work of the twe/fth century. : 
In the fourteenth century the Chancel appears to have been 
lengthened and the east and north-east windows to have been in- 
-serted, the characteristics of this portion of the Church enabling 
us to attribute it to the middle-pointed, or decorated, period of archi- 
tecture. 
Towards the latter portion of the fifteenth century, judging from 
the tracery of the window and other features of the structvve, we 
should imagine that the present Tower was added to the C. urch. 
No long time after, probably at the end of the fifteenth or the 
commencement of the sixteenth century, the North Aisle was added. 
We shall presently state our reasons for believing that this part of 
the Church was built at ¢wo distinct periods, though at no long 
interval probably between them. 
A little later, possibly shortly before the Reformation, the small 
Chantry Chapel, now called the Kingston Aisle, was built ; by whom, 
it is not known,—though perhaps by some member of the ‘ Hall’ 
family, the proprietors at that time of the ‘Mansion House,’ by the 
owner of which, for the time being, it has always been held. 
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