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end there is a cross of modern date roughly worked. In a sketch 

 by the Kev. John M. Colson, 1858, the gable is represented 

 as " hipped-in." On removing the old roof it was patent by the 

 timber that though there were no outward signs the sketch was 

 trustworthy. Some of the stones of the ancient eave's-course were 

 (removed from their original place), and were worked into the south 

 wall as ashlar on some occasion when the roof was being repaired. 

 The moulded corbels on each side of the gable remain in their original 

 position, and formed part of this course, which once ran the entire 

 length of the eaves on either side of the chancel. Three or four of 

 the stones can easily be seen below the eaves on the south. 



THE NORTH WALL OF THE CHANCEL 



reveals how the Norman insertions were made. For five or six 

 feet from the foundation there is the rough early rubble-work (pi. I., 

 fig. 2, E). Then can be seen a belt of ashlar (pi. I., fig. 2, A.), 

 into which a pure Norman window has been inserted. The coating 

 of ashlar from six to nine inches on the bed is inside and out, but 

 the core of the wall (found while fixing the iron binding rods) is 

 of rubble, and (pi. I., fig. 2, C.) this rubble continues above the 

 ashlar until the roof is reached, while the Norman work is notched 

 into the ancient quoins at the angle, and so straight-faced as to 

 leave the older wall crooked. 



A CONSECRATION CROSS 



is carved in a N.E. angle quoin about five feet above the plinth, 

 another on the capital of the column in the interior on the same 

 level, and there are more crosses at different angles in the chancel. 



As on the S. side a moulded eave's-course surmounted this N. 

 wall, at the top of which, near the tower, is a small doorway leading 

 to the tower and priest's chamber over the chancel, evidently 

 reached by a ladder from the exterior. If there was, at one time, 

 no rectory it is supposed a travelling priest did duty and used the 

 chamber as his abode. 



The serious nature of the settlement, producing from four- 

 and-a-half to six inches difference, is observed over the arch of 



