By E. W. Godwin, Esq. 147 



similar to fragments in Westminster Hall and Canterbury Cathe- 

 dral, date 1097 ; the foliated ornaments in the arch are almost 

 entirely concealed by the roof of the Porch. Between the first two 

 buttresses to the east of the Porch is a very small semicircular- 

 headed recess, which has the appearance of a small " Norman " 

 window, blocked upon the inside. The Priest's door (Plate II.) 

 has a bold hood-moulding, which appears by the returns being 

 broken off, to have been continued as a string • course round the 

 Chancel. 



The first thing that strikes us on entering, is the unusually 

 small width of the Chancel arch, (being only 5 feet 7\ inches, 

 which has the appearance of being even less from the square form 

 of the piers, which are more than half the span of the arch in 

 thickness). The arch itself is doubly recessed and chamfered, 

 the inner order rests on moulded corbels, the members of which 

 are scarcely distinguishable so thoroughly choked as they are with 

 whitewash and plaster. There is an "Early English" piscina in the 

 south wall of the Chancel, having a rather singular "credence" shelf, 

 see Plate II. In the north-east corner of the Nave are the stairs to 

 the roodloft, they are of the 15th century. The Font has a circular 

 basin and stem resting on an octagonal base or plinth, the basin 

 is enriched with billet, pellet, and scallop ornaments. There are 

 one or two open seats of late date at the west end of the Nave. 

 The roofs over the Nave and Chancel are concealed by plaster ceil- 

 ings. We come now to the mural paintings lately discovered ; the 

 portion exposed is between seven and eight feet high, and extends 

 from the north window about twelve feet westward. In the central 

 compartment is a colossal figure of St. Christopher, a mermaid 

 holding a mirror is introduced in front of the Saint's staff: the 

 compartment to the right, representing a monk, or priest, holding 

 a lantern, and standing in the entrance of a church, apparently 

 forms a portion of the same subject. The figure in the compart- 

 ment to the left is intended to represent St. Michael holding the 

 scales of judgment, the image of Sin is very expressive ; the letters 

 " ewle: a" in this compartment have no connexion with the sub- 

 ject, but probably refer to some text of Scripture now destroyed, 



L 2 



