UPHILL OLD CHURCH, 1) 
The tower which stands between the nave and 
the chancel, is a massive and striking pile of build- 
ing, at the north east angle of it is a three- 
sided staircase-turret, ending in an octagonal.pin- 
nacle, with a finial of late date, the base of the 
pinnacle being ornamented with a sort of parapet 
of the Tudor fiower. To the west of this turret are 
three trefoiled windows, evidently insertions, the 
lowest of which is of two lights, but the mullion 
has disappeared. Above this window may be per- 
ceived the ashler work of a large rather sharp- 
pointed arch, but as to whether it was intended for 
a contemplated transept or merely an arch of con- 
struction, I will not risk an opinion. There is on 
this side of the tower a good pierced parapet of 
perpendicular character. The east and west sides 
of the tower are very plain, the parapet low and 
unpierced, with a good cornice moulding of late 
date. On each of these sides there is a small tre- 
foiled window—that on the east of two lights, that 
on the west of one, the ashler work of both formed 
of very large stones and the workmanship very rude. 
On the south side, the tower is supported by two 
massive buttresses of four stages, which correspond 
with each other neither in height, thickness, nor 
mouldings; and in the upper part is a rude 
foliated window, formed of very large stones. At 
about four feet from the ground, on this side of 
the tower, we again meet with a vestige of very 
early work, in the shape of a very small round- 
c 
