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The chancel has a chamfered plinth and diagonal 

 angle buttresses of two stages. There are no lateral 

 buttresses or strings. On its north side the chancel is 

 covered for more than half its length by the organ- 

 chamber and vestry. The four-centred east window- 

 is of five cinquefoiled lights with traceried head and 

 hood-mould, and at the east end of the north wall is a 

 three-light window of the same character. Both have 

 double hollow-chamfered jambs, but the upper part 

 of the east window has been restored. In the south wall 

 are two pointed windows, the easternmost of three 

 cinquefoiled lights with the 

 mullions crossing in the head, 

 tracer)',' and hood-mould, and 

 that to the west of two trefoiled 

 lights with a quatrefoil in the 

 head, and hood-mould with 

 head-stops: these windows have 

 double wave-moulded jambs and 

 are placed high in the wall. 

 Below the westernmost, but not 

 connected with it, is a small 

 rectangular low-side window, 

 probably of the same date, the sill 

 and head of which are chamfered 

 and the jambs wave-moulded. 

 Internally it has a flatly pointed 

 rear-arch, and is now filled with 

 a modern iron casement.^ The 

 late-i2th-century priest's door- 

 way, now blocked, has a plain 

 round arch of a single square 

 order, with hood-mould, spring- 

 ing from plain imposts, below 

 which the jambs arechamfered.^ 

 East of this is a wide external 

 sepulchral wall recess, with semi- 

 circular chamfered arch and 

 hood-mould, apparently con- 

 temporary with the doorway.* 

 Internally, in the usual position 

 in the south wall, are triple sedilia 

 under trefoiled ogee arches, the 

 hood-moulds of which have 

 head-stops and finials: the arches 

 and dividing shafts and jambs 

 are moulded, and the seats are 

 on one level. There is no piscina. 

 In the north wall, below the window, is a rectangular 

 aumbry, and a little farther west the blocked doorway 

 already referred to. There is a modern doorway to the 

 vestry and an arch to the organ-chamber. The pointed 

 chancel arch is of two hollow-chamfered orders, with 

 hood-mould on the nave side, springing from half-octa- 

 gonal responds with moulded capitals and bases. Close 

 to the south respond, in the chancel wall, is a blocked 

 rectangular opening about 3 ft. above the floor, which 

 appears to have been a squint,' but there is no indica- 

 tion of it in the aisle. All the chancel fittings are 

 modern. There is no screen. 



The south arcade of the nave consists of three pointed 

 arches of two chamfered orders, springing from cylin- 

 drical pillars with circular moulded bases, from a 



moulded impost at the east end, and at the west from 

 a half-octagonal respond with moulded capital and 

 base. The capital of the easternmost pillar has a square 

 abacus and is plainly shaped below the moulding, but 

 the moulded capital of the second pillar is circular 

 throughout and the base moulding stands on a square 

 plinth 10 in. high. The arches and the west respond 

 are apparently part of the 14th-century reconstruction: 

 the arches have a hood-mould on the nave side only. 

 The north arcade is of similar design: the blocking 

 masonry leaves part of the pillars exposed internally 



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and in each bay there is a single-light trefoiled win- 

 dow. A blocked rood-loft doorway remains in the 

 nave, north of the chancel arch. 



The aisle is without buttresses and is lighted on the 

 south by two square-headed windows of three trefoiled 

 lights, one on each side of the porch, and at the east and 

 west ends by similar windows of two lights. All these 

 windows have hood-moulds and double-chamfered 

 jambs, but are much restored. The pointed south 

 doorway has a continuous double ogee moulding, and 

 above it is a trefoil-headed niche. In the usual position 

 is a piscina with shouldered head and circular bowl. 



There are three plain square-headed two-light 

 clerestory windows above the south arcade, but none 

 on the north side. 



' The head and tracery have been re- 

 newed. 



• jiuoc. Arch. Soc. Rep. xxix, 397, The 

 opening is z ft. 4 in. by 14 in., and the 

 height of the aill from the ground outside 



is 3 ft. 3 in. 



' The opening is 2 ft. 3 in. wide. The 

 innposts arc moulded on their inner faces. 

 There are two scratch dials on the west 

 jamb stones. 



* It is 6 ft. 5 in. wide, 1: in. deep, and 

 about 3 ft. 6 in. high. There is no record 

 of its having contained an effigy. 



' The opening is 1 2 } in. high and 1 6 in. 



wide. 



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