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to be found in the walls of the lowest portion of the present tower. 

 You will notice, both within and without, certain stones which have 

 very simple mouldings on them, which may have been either Norman 

 or possibly even Saxon, which have evidently been taken from a previous 

 building. They are, as you will doubtless notice, built in without plan 

 or correspondence, and in their present position are clearly out of place. 

 They indicate that the present tower was built with the help of 

 materials taken either from a previous tower or a chapel. The splays 

 of the north and south windows in the lowest part of the tower also 

 appear to have belonged to other windows, if we may argue from the fact 

 that they turn inwards at the edges and do not seem to n't the present 

 lights. The height of this second building, which now forms the 

 lowest portion of the present tower, is indicated by the set-offs just 

 below the present ringers' floor. It communicated with the church by 

 a segmental arch just under the present staircase. It was a short and 

 exceedingly strong tower, like other church towers of the neighbour- 

 hood. It must have been entered by a door on the west side, and 

 the narrow windows with their broad splays threw the light to the 

 ground floor. The windows were rounded and segmental. The church 

 which belonged to this short tower was probably an Early English one. 

 Only a portion of it can be seen in the picture of this later (Perpendicular) 

 church before you, forming the south transept. We have 'four-way' 

 terminals of the same period over the Rectory entrance, indicating that 

 the church was cruciform, and therefore had a transept. There are 

 also some relics of Early English shafts with their central columns and 

 capitals in the rectory garden. We believe that this chinch was built 

 when the rectory was created about 500 years ago, and the parish 

 separated from Worth. The windows in the north aisle of the present 

 church were probably taken from this church, which was built not of 

 Purbeck, but of Wiltshire stone. In the old south transept was a fine 

 old sundial on the south side, with a gnomon of slate. A further story 

 was added much later to the tower about 300 years ago. This later 

 addition to the tower is half-a-foot less thick than the lowest portion. 

 It was probably added when the Perpendicular church was built. The 

 picture before you, drawn by the late Rev. J. M. Colson, shows a 

 Perpendicular style. This church must have been built in place of the 

 former Early English one at the time when the tower was added tc. The 

 only parts of it remaining are the Perpendicular window now on the 

 south side of the nave, which used to stand at the east end of the 

 Perpendicular church, as the picture shows, and the two windows in the 

 south transept which used to be south chancel windows, and probably to 



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