174 STUDLAND CHURCH. 



THE WEST END, 



it is believed, was a plain wall with no window. The Saxon work 

 rises as high as the eave's-course. There is now a large semi- 

 circular window of a late date with plain jambs. Probably there 

 was a gable-end with water-table, but this has been rebuilt. A fine 

 old Maltese cross stands at the gable-end. 



THE INTERIOR OF NAVE. 



The floor line is remarkable in running towards the chancel 

 three to four inches in ten feet. Under the floor are from three to 

 four feet of human remains and sand. 



In taking off the plaster to fix a match-board dado on the north 

 and south walls a line running all round the nave parallel with the 

 floor line was discovered, 2 J inches wide, of red and blue distemper. 

 This colour was laid on very thin plaster close to walls and finished 

 off at the jambs of doorways with ornamental finials. 



INSIDE THE CHANCEL 



are four columns (see plan), one at each angle, with a groined arch, 

 the diagonal ribs of which are semi-circular stilted. The groins 

 are of Purbeck "burr" and soft enough to be carved with a 

 knife, wondrously light for such architecture, being porous ; the 

 " burr " is unfitted for facing. The stone can be obtained only from 

 rocks which appear at low tide thirty yards E. of the stone quay 

 at Swanage. There are no other arches in the neighbourhood 

 turned with this stone. A proper radiation has been maintained 

 of the stones in the arches. 



The rough rubble-work of the three walls reaches a height of 

 about four feet. 



Above the E. window, one of a later date, a large crack filled 

 in with red sandstone shows the settlement. As a whole the 

 window went to the S. and drew the jamb from the rubble work. 

 The outside N. jamb projects two or three inches from the inner. 



The later builders left the E. wall of the chancel untouched. 

 The N. side was hidden by plaster until the preservation. It has 



