BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



DUNSFOLD 



design is repeated in the two remaining windows in 

 the side walls of the nave (there were two others in the 

 western bay, filled up when the timber tower was 

 built), and in the opposite walls of the transepts, the 

 only variation in the design being that the two western 

 windows of the chancel were prolonged downwards, 

 after the manner of a certain class of low side win- 

 dows. The east window of each transept is of a 

 different design, smaller and plainer, consisting of two 

 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over, the whole 

 worked on one plane, with chamfers instead of 

 mouldings, and without an inclosing arch. The east 

 window of the chancel is large and of three trefoiled 

 lights, with three cinquefoiled circles above within a 

 moulded inclosing arch, but without a hood. There 

 is a quatrefoil panel in the apex of the gable, originally 

 an opening pierced for ventilation, but reproduced in 

 this meaningless form at the 1882 restoration, when 



its place. The rafters and boarding of the roof still 

 retain scroll patterns painted c. 1280. 



Besides the priest's door in the south wall of the 

 chancel, there is a small doorway in the north wall of 

 the north transept and the usual south door in the 

 nave, all having engaged shafts with capitals and bases, 

 delicate hollow stop-chamfers to the jambs, and 

 moulded arches and labels. The nave doorway retains 

 its original oak door, with coeval wrought-iron hinges, 

 strap-work, closing ring, scutcheon, and a large solid 

 oak lock-case. This doorway has a pointed segmental 

 head on the inside, moulded and having a moulded 

 hood which is made to die into the string-course of 

 plain circular section which runs almost entirely round 

 the church on the inside. 



The chancel and transept arches are doubly hollow 

 chamfered, and the former has no capitals. Those of 

 the transept arches are boldly moulded, of differing 



DUNSKOLD CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH-EAST 



also the east window was raised in the wall and a 

 transom with blank panels inserted beneath it a very 

 unwarrantable tampering with the fine design. The 

 west window of the nave has interlacing tracery in 

 three lights, the centre cinquefoiled and the others 

 trefoiled, with pointed trefoils and quatrefoils in the 

 spaces above. This window has a hood-mould the 

 only one used externally and its mouldings and 

 character are so far different from the others as to 

 suggest that it is an insertion of slightly later date 

 (c. 1300). 



The south porch is remarkable for its excep- 

 tional antiquity, the main timbers, including the 

 trefoiled bargeboard (which has a curious ' halved ' 

 joint at the apex) being coeval with the church. 

 Early in the i6th century, however, the original 

 doorway was removed and the present one, with four- 

 centred head and Tudor roses in the spandrels, put in 



sections, corresponding to those in the door-shafts. 

 The chancel arch was, most reprehensibly, heightened 

 and widened, a hood-moulding being added in the 

 restoration of 1882, and in this way a squint and 

 image-niche on the northern side of the arch were 

 displaced. Both transepts retain their piscinae, that 

 in the south transept having grooves for the oak shelf. 

 The northern one is in the north wall, i.e. on the 

 gospel side of the altar, a somewhat unusual position. 

 Part of what may have been a piscina belonging to 

 one of the nave altars is preserved in the vestry. The 

 triple sedilia and piscina in the chancel are a most 

 beautiful composition, the four arches having undercut 

 hood-mouldings dying into the circular string-course 

 over them. The arches have a wave-moulding as the 

 outer order, as in the windows and doors, and a 

 hollow for the inner, which is worked into a light and 

 graceful trefoil. The mouldings of the capitals and 



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