ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN FORDINGTOX CHURCH. 185 



the fact that several mediaeval tiles have been discovered in the 

 excavations, enriched with the pattern of a St. Catherine wheel 

 upon them. 



When the Perpendicular masons wished to put the south 

 transept arch in, they probably removed a small semi-Norman 

 arch and responds (between the south aisle and the transept). 

 A certain amount of shoring was necessary. They must have 

 been at some pains to know how they were going to finish the 

 head of the opening, carry the aisle and transept roofs, miss the 

 transept arch, and make the job look right. They were equal 

 to the occasion. They squared up the jamb with a plain 

 chamfer, and inserted an arch (approaching the 4-centred shape 

 of a later period), the springing of which just missed the ogee 

 member of the transept arch above its springing ; the springing 

 stones only to this aisle arch are arcs of circles, the other stones 

 being straight. The chamfer to the jamb was carried round the 

 bottom edges on each side of it (see sketch No. 4). 



The east wall of the old north transept was left standing when 

 the north aisle was built, and there are the remains of a 3 -light 

 window blocked up. The jamb stones and arch exist, but the 

 mullions and tracery are gone. The sill left in was not the 

 original sill of the window, but pieced up lengths of chamfered 

 stone of a different nature, on which there are no signs of any 

 stools remaining. 



This wall was incorporated with the work of the new north 

 aisle put up in 1833. 



The length of foundation exposed, extending some 12 feet 

 eastwards from the present north wall, probably supported one 

 of the walls of a vestiarium in connection with the former 

 Perpendicular chancel, the foundation of the return wall of the 

 same having been grubbed out to make room for a vault at this 

 spot. 



The angle buttress to the south-west angle of the Perpen- 

 dicular west wall of the south aisle is worthy of note, inasmuch 

 as it is the only buttress to the older work of the church existing. 

 Whether there were ever any others there is no evidence to show. 



