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the ordinary leper windows, especially as there was a leper hospital 

 St. Leonard's a few yards beyond it, and the door by its side 

 has within the memory of some been called " The Leper's Gate." 

 The north window is Early English. 



The rest of the Church belongs to the Decorated Period, its 

 probable date being about 1370. The heads of the three principal 

 windows, E., S., and W., are of the reticulated pattern, the top of 

 that in the south transept being boldly cut off, as the window was 

 placed so high that there was not quite room enough for the whole. 



In the chancel on the south side is the ordinary leper window of 

 one light or lychnoscope, as it is sometimes called. There are two 

 similar windows, each of two lights, facing one another, one on the 

 north, the other on the south side, and a three-light window in the 

 east, all belonging to the same order. The last window was placed 

 a little way from the middle of the wall and towards the south to 

 make room for a beautiful niche, which is figured in Barr's "Anglican 

 Church Architecture" (J. H. Parker), and is stated to be an excellent 

 model of the Decorated character. The moulding round the head 

 ends in the characteristic ball-flower. In the south wall there is 

 an elegant piscina. When the Church was restored in the time 

 of the Decorated Period, the jambs of the Norman chancel arch 

 were pierced and traceried hagioscopes inserted. A squint was 

 also made from the north transept, having a grille of elegant 

 design. There are traces in the middle of the archway above the 

 springing of the arch of a rod, around which was probably rolled 

 "the blacke cloth" used "at the sacring of the mass," such as that 

 mentioned in the History of the Church of St. Lawrence, Eeading. 

 There is a square hole about the middle of the wall, opening east- 

 ward, in connection with this rod. In the east wall of each of the 

 transepts there is a square-headed three-light window, which may 

 belong to the Perpendicular Period. The mullions are hollowed, 

 those of all the other windows being simply chamfered or bevelled. 

 Above these two windows on the outside there are labels, that on 

 the north ending in grotesque animal heads, that on the south in a 

 mitred and a crowned head. 



