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The church of St. Stephen consists of 



CHURCH chancel, nave with aisles and south 



porch, and west tower and spire. A 



chapel, with a vestry to the east, formerly existed on 



the north of the chancel. 



The church is a good specimen of 13th-century 

 work, and no remains of any earlier building are to 

 b« seen.' 

 The chancel, 36 ft. by 14 ft., is finely propor- 



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with a chamfered segmental head, and the arch to the 

 north chapel, both remain. In the south wall are 

 three two-light windows, with circles in the head 

 enclosing trefoils ; they are widely splayed inside, 

 with segmental rear-arches. Beneath the west window 

 on this side is a 14th-century low side window, with 

 an uncusped ogee head outside, and widely-splayed 

 jambs within, under a wide ogee rear-arch. To the 

 east of it is a small plain priest's door, with a. 



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tloned and of excellent detail. The east window is 

 of five lancet lights under an arched head, with 

 pierced spandrels. There are no windows on the 

 north side of the chancel, on account of the former 

 existence of a vestry and chapel ; the vestry door. 



segmental rear-arch. There is a double piscina, 

 with a modern central shaft and tr.iccry, and three 

 sedilia with trefolled arches carried by shafts with 

 moulded capitals and bases. In the north-east angle 

 of the chancel is a little arched opening 8 J in. high by 



' But it i« to be noted that the axis of the chancel inclinea sliVhtlj to the north, and the irregular setting-out of the tower 

 shows that it has been adapted to some previously existing building. There arc several other irregularities also which tcU 

 the same tale. 



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