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buttresses, since the foundations of these erected since bear clear 

 traces of being added to ancient masonry. (Fig. 2 on plan.) 



Two small windows were undoubtedly in the centre of the N. 

 and S. walls. There are the remains of sandstone window jambs 

 with no grooves for glass but rebates for shutters. The roofs were 

 probably thatched with reed. 



The buttresses have been inserted to strengthen the walls outside, 

 while inside we find massive columns and arches added to the 

 earlier wall to enable the Normans to safely raise the super- 

 structure. 



Above the string-course the ashlar has been carried up and worked 

 in with the buttress, a fact which should make the argument for a 

 Saxon building earlier than the Norman alterations perfectly 

 conclusive. 



It was clearly the intention of the latter masons to carry the 

 tower six feet higher than they did. At the top are parts of four 

 windows, one in either wall, at each jamb bases and columns, the 

 latter three feet six inches, without capitals, as if the builders 

 determined to finish off with semi-circular arches, but probably the 

 building showed a tendency to settle, the mixed work at the bottom 

 not bearing the strain, so the windows were built up level with a 

 thickness of walling (three feet six inches), and the two flat 

 gable-ends E. and W. one foot six only, to give a slight run to the 

 roof. 



It is to be noticed that the two skew-stones at the bottom of the 

 water-table on E. side are worked to the proper pitch of the roof, 

 but on the W. side they are worked at a different angle, being, it 

 would appear, the ancient skews, when the tower roof was parallel 

 to that of the nave, as if the builders covered in pro tern. The tower 

 is now strong enough to bear completion. 



The roof was found to be of rude carpentry, great timber 

 principals, purlins, and rafters with rough oaken shingles laid 

 across about three inches asunder covered with cast-lead 3-1 6th inch 

 thick without wooden rolls, and the lead in good condition. 

 The earliest date scored thereon is 1381. 



