CITY OF DURHAM 



internal vicissitudes of the i8th and early 19th 

 centuries, galleries being erected at the west end 

 and in the north aisle, the latter in 1824 with a 

 separate external entrance.*^ The east window 

 was ' a modern sash,' and the rest of the windows 

 on the north and south of the church had been 

 renewed about the middle of the last century.** 

 In 1880 the building underwent an extensive 

 restoration, the whole of the north aisle being 

 taken down and widened, and the vestry and 

 organ chamber added at its east end. New 

 porches were erected, new windows inserted, 

 except in the north side of the clearstory, the 

 galleries removed, and the interior generally 

 renovated. The interior of the tower was 

 repaired in 1897. 



The old walling is all of rubble, and the roofs 

 are of flat pitch covered with lead behind 

 straight parapets. The east window of the 

 chancel is modern and of five lights with per- 

 pendicular tracery, and there are two modern 

 square-headed clearstory windows on the south 

 side. Internally the chancel is open to the aisle 

 on the south by a wide pointed arch of two 

 hollow chamfered orders dying into the wall at 

 the springing, and the lower half of the wall is 

 reduced in thickness. The aisle is the full length 

 of the chancel, the east walls being flush out- 

 side, and is lighted by two modern windows on 

 the south and one at the east end. The north 

 wall of the chancel is pierced at its west end 

 by the arch already referred to, which is of two 

 hollow chamfered orders, and now opens to the 

 organ chamber. The east end of the wall con- 

 tains two aumbries, one oblong in shape, above 

 which, at a height of about 7 ft. from the 

 sanctuary floor, is a plain round-headed window, 

 now built up, with wide internal splay, the only 

 architectural feature of the late 12th-century 

 chancel now remaining with the exception of the 

 chancel arch. The roof is a modern one of three 

 bays, and the fittings are all modern. 



The chancel arch is very lofty and elliptical in 

 form, and consists of two orders slightly cham- 

 fered on the edge, with hood mould towards 

 the nave continued north and south along the 

 waU. The opening is 15 ft. wide, and the inner 

 order springs from corbelled shafts with cushion 

 capitals, the outer order going down to the 

 ground. The shafts are modern restorations, 

 and the jambs, along with much of the walling 

 on either side, including the two squints, have 

 also been renewed. The squint on the south 

 side of the arch is so contrived as to afford a view 

 not only of the high altar from the south aisle, 

 but also of that of the chantry altar from the 



^ Surtees, Hist. Dur. iv, 128. It is stated that 

 ' the whole fabric has been placed in complete repair.' 

 An organ was placed in the north gallery in 1828. 



M Fordyce, Hist. Dur. (1857), ». 3^3- 



nave. The chancel arch, having been weakened 

 by the alterations in the 15th century, conse- 

 quent, no doubt, on its excessive height and 

 extreme flatness, was strengthened by squinch 

 work on either side and by the erection of a 

 pointed relieving arch above it which shows on 

 the east side towards the chancel. 



The south arcade of the nave consists of four 

 semicircular arches of a single order, square to 

 the aisle but slightly chamfered towards the 

 nave, springing at a height of 8 ft. 10 in. from 

 circular piers and half-round responds. The first 

 and second piers from the east and the western 

 respond have scalloped capitals and chamfered 

 abaci ; the capital of the third pier is plain, and 

 that of the eastern respond has an incipient 

 volute ornament with a head facing west. The 

 piers are 27 in. in diameter, and have been 

 renewed in places, the moulded bases being all 

 modern restorations. The arches have hood 

 moulds on the nave side only. The aisle is 

 10 ft. 3 in. wide, and is lighted by three modern 

 two-light windows. 



The north arcade consists of four semi- 

 circular arches of two chamfered orders, spring- 

 ing at a height of 13 ft. from circular piers and 

 keel-shaped responds, all with moulded capitals 

 and bases. There is a hood mould towards the 

 nave, and the piers, which are 22 in. in diameter, 

 have been a good deal restored, all the bases, 

 like those on the south side, being new. The 

 eastern respond has been entirely rebuilt. The 

 greater height and light proportions of the north 

 arcade are in strong contrast to the older work. 

 The north aisle is described as being originally 

 ' very narrow but having no ancient work in 

 it.'^ As rebuilt, it is 13 ft. wide, with three 

 windows on the north side and one at the west 

 end. 



The nave roof is a modern one of six bays, and 

 the clearstory has three new windows of two 

 trefoiled lights on the south side, with four- 

 centred heads and hood moulds. The western 

 12th-century clearstory window is at a very 

 much lower level, its sill being immediately 

 above the crown of the arch of the arcade and its 

 head externally about half the height of the later 

 openings. It has no hood mould, and the head is 

 in three stones. A portion of weathering above 

 the opening apparently shows the height of the 

 original wall. On the north side there are two 

 unrestored clearstory windows, each of two 

 plain lights with four-centred heads, but without 

 hood moulds. The walls internally are all plas- 

 tered except at the west end, where the masonry 

 is left bare. 



The tower is of four stages, each slightly 

 setting back, and terminates in an embattled 



^ Informauon of the late Mr. C. Hodgson Fowler, 

 architect of the restoration. 



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