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church, and placed in one of the niches under the 

 south windows, apparently its original position, as it 

 fitted exactly ; and a not improbable theory is broached, 

 that the effigy is the figure of Henry de Glanville, 

 Sybilla's husband, and that she intended the other 

 recess for her own statue, but was prevented from 

 carrying out her intention perhaps by dying in a dis- 

 tant part. So interesting a building as this chantry 

 could hardly fail to give rise to an archaeological con- 

 troversy, and accordingly it has been advanced that 

 it was originally an independent building, and the 

 church was afterwards built adjacent to it. The 

 proofs of this can hardly be contradicted. A buttress 

 built into the wall of the porch, and visible inside the 

 church, with the same occurring in the chancel, are 

 pretty sure signs the church was added to the chantry, 

 and not the chantry to the church. Moreover, the 

 flintwork ceases suddenly at the commencement of 

 the porch and at the chancel, in both instances being 

 continued by later stonemasonry. But further proof 

 is given by the doorway leading from the nave into 

 the chantry being clearly an outside entry ; and the 

 holy water stoup close at hand still further strengthens 

 the belief, which gains additional force by the circum- 

 stance that the foundation of the former northern 

 wall was found existing under the arch before men- 

 tioned. No trace of a former church having been 

 found is another argument in favour of the statement, 

 although, on the other hand, we are told there is no 



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