184 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN FORlDlNGTON CHURCH. 



The bonding to the old work is clearly shown at the sides, and 

 it has a plinth, which does not run round the east wall. It is 

 finished with a gable and plainly coped. 



The three-light window is the most perfect window of its 

 period in the church, although its effect seen from inside is 

 spoilt by the loud colouring of the glass in the margins of the 

 lead glazing. 



The tracery is of the most usual vertical type of this period, 

 and is in two orders, the larger one internally having a stone 

 fillet worked on it (see Sketch No. 5) and running down the 

 mullions. The chamfers are hollow ; the heads of the lights to 

 the second order are double cusped and to the first order single 

 cusped. The outer reveal has a shallow casement and fillets and 

 a scroll hood-mould over the arch, returned in itself three ways, 

 to form drip-stones at the springing. 



The internal reveal is a wide splay following the line of the 

 window arch and finishing with double hollows and fillets next 

 the internal face of wall. The tracery and mullions were restored 

 in the year 1863. 



A small plain chamfered stone corbel, Sin. wide, about 7 feet 

 from the floor, is built inside the wall on the left hand side of 

 this window. For what purpose it was used is not clear. It 

 may have supported the beam of a floor carrying an organ or 

 choir gallery with a front balcony, as it is said that transepts 

 were sometimes used for that purpose, or the cell or apartments 

 of an anchorite, he using the gallery floor ; and the little two- 

 light window, which is very crude, appears to have been 

 constructed by a novice, possibly the anchorite himself, for 

 meditation and pursuing the studies of his vocation and ministry ; 

 the lower floor being used for eating, sleeping, and cleaning 

 purposes. 



Of course I give this as pure conjecture and for what it is worth. 



The little window is illustrated on sketch No. 4. Its size is 

 i ft. sin. wide by aft. Sin. high. 



There is also a tradition that there was a chapel or shrine to 

 St. Catherine here, and this tradition is supported somewhat by 



