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Opposite to, and level with one at the E., is a square-headed 

 doorway, at the bottom of which, in picking off the plaster, a rough 

 groove, the whole width of the N. joint, was brought to light. 

 This is at the entrance to the bell loft, and, as each of the four 

 bells (see Bells, p. 177) will go through the opening except the 

 largest, and its rim is the exact width given by the extra groove, it 

 was evidently knocked out to admit the big bell. 



THE NAVE. 



The exterior of the nave is adorned with strange Norman corbels 

 along the eave's-course of rude workmanship and vulgar design. 

 Iconoclasts have smashed the most interesting. Cheek by jowl 

 with stones, bearing these curious decorations, are some heads 

 showing advanced skill, chiefly designs of animals. The harebell 

 represented within the building also figures upon some of the corbels, 

 and one of an octopus on the N. 



THE SOUTH WALL OF THE NAVE, 



up to the eave's-course, is mainly rubble-work. The porch is 

 modern. (Fig. 4 on plan.) There were probably two narrow 

 Saxon windows in this wall similar to those on the 1ST. (The two 

 quoins, fig 5 on plan, are ashlar.) The old doorway was here also. 

 Two large semi-circular windows have been inserted, one each side 

 of the porch. The doorway is Norman. The plinth is in good 

 condition, having been buried in the soil. It has been surmised 

 that the Normans inserted the plinth and seven-inch course of 

 ashlar on the top of it when they altered the church. The N.W. 

 (pi. L, fig. 2) small window proved an interesting study. 



It certainly splayed both outside and in, similar to those of the 

 Saxon church of S. Lawrence, Bradford-on-Avon, but the Normans 

 inserted jambs and arches in the outside part of the window, which 

 account for the two arches found here one inside the other. The 

 N.E. window was evidently like this one, but a doorway had to 

 be cut through, to reach which a flight of steps outside led to the 

 entrance of a gallery, which was constructed about the middle of 

 last century along the N. side of the nave. 



