194 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN FORDINGTON CHURCH. 



hearing. The buttresses are pared down to too small a scale, 

 narrow and with insufficient projection, with the plainest possible 

 chamfers for the weatherings. The windows are the other way 

 about, and are too large in scale ; they comprise simple single- 

 pointed openings, splayed in and out. 



The west door is too small, but of a similar character. The 

 second plinth of the fine moulding to the base of the tower was 

 here chopped away, so as not to interfere with the means of 

 egress. 



It is roofed with a one-third pitch span roof covered with slate, 

 and the gable ends are carried up with water-tables ; there is a 

 projecting stone course to the eaves. 



The north wall and transept arch was replaced by a piece of 

 work akin to engineering in design, the object to be attained 

 evidently being non-obstruction of view of the preacher from a 

 gallery that was erected over the north aisle on three plain iron 

 columns. It consists of two cambered arches, flat swept and 

 square on the soffit, each of nearly 20 feet span, supported in the 

 centre by a column 18 inches in diameter, with no base, but 

 with a capital Tuscan in character. The abutments for these 

 arches are formed by the north Avail of the tower and chancel 

 respectively, the pilaster near the chancel being formed with 

 plaster and finished with a square stone cap to match the column. 

 The organ is placed at the east end of the gallery, and the vestry 

 is partitioned off under the west end of the same. 



A gallery existed at the west end of the nave at one period, 

 blocking the fine tower arch. This was removed. The pulpit is 

 also said to have been removed from the north respond of the 

 chancel arch to its south side in the year 1863. 



The old pews and boxes were removed about 30 years ago, 

 and the church re- seated with the modern pew arrangement. A 

 modern cusped trefoil-shaped window of common-place detail 

 was also introduced in the eastern wall of the porch. 



No other work of any importance was taken in hand until the 

 time of the last Vicar, when the stonework to the tower was 

 repaired, the bells re- hung, and a new belfry put in, a turret 



