By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 249 
The Cuancet is about thirteen feet in length, and ten feet in width. 
It was entered through an archway which could not have been 
wider than about four feet siz inches, if indeed so much. There is 
still remaining the fragment of the arch, which springs from an 
impost and has the usual characteristics of ante-Norman. work. 
Its vast disproportion, in size, to the height of the wall is very 
striking, and may be perceived by comparing it with the elevation, 
as shewn in Plate iv., both being drawn to the same scale. Above 
this arch, were found imbedded in the wall, two stone figures of 
angels, which are now placed over a modern porch, which has been 
erected as an entrance to the building on the west side. These 
figures are executed in a kind of low-relief;—the angels have their 
wings expanded, and around their heads is the ‘nimbus.’ They 
seem to be in the act of devotion, and, as they were found, one on 
either side, in the wall above the Chancel arch, it is conjectured 
that originally there was some central figure which was removed in 
order to make way for the large stack of chimneys now carried 
up through the centre of the building. 
It may be observed that the pilasters on the east elevation of the 
Chancel are moulded into three depressed roundels, a very simple 
form of decoration,—in fact, the earliest form met with in this 
country. This work is therefore especially valuable as it seems to 
denote, first of all, the superiority of the eastern over the other 
elevations, where this ornament is not to be found, and so to increase 
the probability that the building is a Church;—and, in the next 
place, when considered together with the peculiar way in which the 
lesser pilasters, which support the arcade, are built, marks out 
distinctly the great antiquity of the structure. 
There is still remaining a window, though blocked up’ with 
masonry, in the south wall of the Chancel. It is circular-headed, 
is splayed considerably externally,—and no doubt would be found to 
be splayed also internally if we were able to examine it,—and gives 
every evidence of being one of the original windows. 
The Nave is twenty-five feet six inches in length, and thirteen 
Jeet four inches in width. It was entered by an archway which 
still exists. The archway, which is not recessed, is two feet ten 
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