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foundations, some sepulchres were deeper than the original 

 substructure, particularly on the south side (fig. 3 on plan) ; and it 

 appeared evident also that the Saxon builders did not foresee that 

 their Norman successors would raise a weighty superstructure on 

 the weak basis of their workmanship. 



SECTION OF THE CHANCEL WALL AND FOOTING. 

 (Marked on Plan). 



A. Base of pillar, standing upon two courses of thin flat stone, 

 was simply tucked under at a later date. 



B. Foundations, large sandstone rock put in roughly, and to a 

 depth of about four feet. 



C. A course of flints regularly " pitched " like a floor. 



D. A bed of white clay of varied thickness. When wet it was 

 as slippery as grease, and ran into a creamy substance, although dry 

 it became very hard and difficult to remove with the pickaxe. 



THE MOETAR 



used gives evidence of an earlier and a later building operation. 

 That of the earliest portion of the building namely, the core 

 between the walls, the rough-footing, and rubble-work had little 

 lime in it, and the loamy sand and fine grit had been taken from 

 the churchyard, and in colour was umber. The mortar of the 

 ashlar work, piers, and arches, which may be classed as Norman 

 work, was whiter and of better substance, chiefly consisting of 

 lime and grit in equal quantities like that in the work at Corfe 

 Castle ; while both work and mortar of the S.W. buttress, which 

 may be assigned to the 14th Century, was the best, the mortar 

 being as hard as cement. 



To preserve the chancel a brick beam, two feet by eighteen inches, 

 was built in all round the walls just above the window arches, and 

 in the centre of this beam a hollow was left, through which were 

 run tie-rods an inch-and-a-half thick, and these were fastened at 

 each angle by nuts and screws. Upright bars were placed at the 

 angles. A couple of sets of bars connected, one running round 



