ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN FORDIXGTOX CHURCH. 183 



The steps are approached through a narrow and low pointed 

 doorway i9in. wide in the east Avail of the transept, with door 

 jambs and arch in Ham Hill stone in reveal, with plain hollow 

 and ogee mould on the same. The hooks are still in the stone- 

 work of the right hand jamb to which a door was formerly hung. 



Externally the masonry at the top of these steps has the 

 appearance of having been much altered, cut about, and botched 

 up. 



The opening inside has been blocked down from the top with 

 masonry about z feet as shewn on sketch, and it is closed to 

 the pulpit with a Jacobean y-panelled door, having scratched 

 mouldings and some carving consisting of guilloche enrichment 

 on the top rail. 



The two-light window east of the transept was evidently 

 inserted in the old wall, its masonry being vertical, and the 

 adjoining masonry on each side to which it is bonded being out 

 of upright and of inferior work. It seems, however, itself of 

 earlier and cruder workmanship than the two- light window 

 which corresponds to it in the west wall of the south aisle. 

 There are no tracery jambs, but they form part of the wide reveal 

 inside. A shallow casement occurs externally, but the sill is 

 very poor. The mullions and tracery are of straight chamfered 

 work with double cusps and eyes, and the finish at the point of 

 the arch is crude and incorrect. 



The two-light window in the west wall is similar in design, 

 except that the chamfering is hollow, and there is no casement 

 externally. It is of superior workmanship, and, although on 

 the weather side, the stone is not decayed as in the former. 

 The point of the window inside is also finished in a correct 

 manner. 



The two-light window built in the old Rectory wall (taken 

 down with the north wall of the church in 1833) is somewhat 

 similar, but it has four cuspings in the upper piercing. (See 

 sketch.) 



The south wall of the transept was put up in the Perpendicular 

 period. 



