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nave re-modelled. The late izth-century north 

 chapel was no doubt affected by this work, and seems 

 to have been rebuilt about 1320.' The eastern half 

 of the south aisle of the nave was widened at this 

 time, but the remainder could not be widened with- 

 out partly destroying the fine south porch, and its 

 original width has been preserved. A two-story 

 vestry was added to the east of the north chapel about 

 1350, and at the end of the 15th century a large 

 south chapel was built on to the chancel, bringing the 

 building to its present plan. 



The chancel, 46 ft. long,* is 1 5 ins. wider at the 

 east than at the west (20 ft. 9 ins. as against 19 ft. 6 ins.), 

 having been built after the usual mediaeval fashion, to 

 the east of an older chancel, which was removed 

 piecemeal to make way for it as the work proceeded. 

 A mistake in setting out was very easy under such 

 conditions, and the necessary adjustment of the new 

 work to the old has produced the deviations to be 



by 1 3 ft., with an east window of three trefoiled lights 

 with two sixfoils in the head and a doorway in its 

 north wall. There was formerly a room over it, 

 lighted from the east by a two-light transomed window 

 with a quatrefoil in the head, but its floor has been 

 removed ; it was reached by a vice at the south-west 

 angle. A doorway in the west wall, leading to the 

 north chapel, was built up in 1854. 



The north chapel opens to the chancel by a semi- 

 circular arch of two chamfered orders, c. 1 180, with 

 half-round responds and foliate capitals with half- 

 octagonal abaci. The north and east walls of the chapel 

 are of a later date than the north wall of the chancel, 

 which here and in the vestry to the east, is faced with 

 ashlar and retains part of an external plinth. The 

 facing continues above the 1 2th-century arch, and 

 stops at the west on a line marking the position of 

 the west wall of the chapel, now partly cut away. In 

 the north wall are two original recesses with segmental 



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seen in the plan. The east window is of five lights 

 with sharply pointed heads, enclosing crocketed cano- 

 pies with finials, and below the canopies are tre- 

 foiled heads. The north and south windows are of 

 two trefoiled lights with geometrical tracery. A 

 moulded string runs round the inside at the level of 

 the sills of the windows, breaking up over the triple 

 sedilia, which are contemporary with the chancel, and 

 have cinquefoilcJ arches with foliate cusps, all the seats 

 being on the same level. To the east is a piscina, 

 with a projecting trefoiled canopy, crocketed, and with 

 flanking pinnacles, and in the north wall, opposite the 

 sedilia, is a plain arched recess, which may have served 

 for the Easter sepulchre. A small modern doorway ' 

 (1854) gives access to the north vestry, a room 12 ft. 



arches containing the effigies of a man and woman, 

 much dam.iged, but once of very good style. The 

 male effigy is cross-legged, and wears a surcoat over 

 a mail hauberk, with a coif of mail on his head ; 

 the date is about 1 300. In the wall above the re- 

 cesses are two ijth-century windows, each of two 

 cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoils in the head under 

 four-centred arches, and at the west end of the north 

 wall is a small doorway. 



South of the chancel is the large late 15th-century 

 chapel, built by the Brownes of Walcot, opening by 

 a wide arch to the chancel, and by a modern arch 

 at the west to the south aisle of the nave.' In its 

 north-east angle is a recessed canopied tomb off. 1 500, 

 on which is a shield bearing the arms of Walcot im- 



' Probably c. 1327, when a chantry- 

 was founded here by Geoffrey of Bar- 

 nack. 



'^ All measurements are internal. 



^ It was formerly a small opening wards the chancel being built of Ketton 



2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 4 in. stone, and this fact may have some bear- 



* It is to be noted that only in this, ing on the date of the disuse of the 



the latest part of the church, is any other ancient B.irnack quarries, 

 than Bamack stone used ; the arch to- 



