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each angle. The base is roll-moulded and is now 

 below the floor line, and the bell capital is also 

 moulded and has scrolls of 13th-century foliage at the 

 four cardinal angles curving outwards from the bell 

 of the capital. The responds are quite plain and 

 have simple moulded abaci, and the arches are two- 

 centred of one order with slightly chamfered edges, 

 and with plain labels on both sides. 



The opposite arcade is similar, but the faces of the 

 central column are not recessed ; it has a water- 

 moulded base and an octagonal moulded capital with- 

 out foliage, and the arches have no labels. Just above 

 the capital on the chancel side can be traced one of 

 the consecration crosses. 



The chancel arch has jambs of two chamfered 

 orders which continue round the arch with a moulded 

 abacus at the springing. It is of early 1 3th-century 

 date, and the wall in which it is set is square with 

 the chancel and not with the nave. The east window 

 of the north chapel is of 15th-century date, and has 

 three cinquefoiled lights under a four-centred head 

 with a moulded label. On either side of it are stones 

 bearing the outlines of image-brackets which have 

 been cut back to the wall face. 



In the north wall are three lancet windows, the 

 eastern of which may be in part old, while the other 

 two replace a 15th-century three-light window. The 

 rear arches are chamfered, and that of the middle 

 window springs from small moulded corbels. 



The arch from this chapel into the north aisle has 

 plain square jambs and a pointed arch ; the stone is 

 darker than that used in the rest of the building, and 

 the 12th-century diagonal tooling on it is very dis- 

 tinct. 



The south chapel dates only from the rebuilding of 

 1837, and its windows from 1868 ; the opening from 

 it to the south aisle has a modern pointed arch on 

 old jambs, attached to each of which is a small 

 modern shaft and moulded base with good foliate 

 capitals of I 3th-century date. 



The nave arcades are of two bays with narrow 

 arched openings in the east responds. It is to be 

 noted that the setting out of the arcade follows the 

 line of the east wall of the nave, which is not square 

 with the side walls, so that the arches are not opposite 

 to one another. The arches and inner order of the 

 jambs of the narrow eastern openings are modern, but 

 the openings themselves seem to be old, and may have 

 been made to give more room for nave altars, like the 

 recesses which are often found in the walls of aisleless 

 naves in this position. 



The arcades are finely proportioned with tall oc- 

 tagonal columns and water-moulded bases or square sub- 

 bases with angle spurs. The capitals are square with 

 moulded abaci, beneath the projecting angles of which 

 are volutes springing from the necking, of very plain 

 detail, only one being carved into leaves. 



The responds are plain and have moulded abaci at 

 the springing, while the arches are of a single square 

 order and are two-centred, the diagonal tooling of the 

 masonry being well preserved. The two north win- 

 dows of the north aisle are modern, the first having 

 three lights and the second two, all with trefoiled 

 heads, while the west window, now looking into the 

 vestry, is 15th-century work of two lights. The 

 north doorway is also of 15th-century date, and has a 

 large hollow chamfer in the jambs which changes to a 

 double ogee moulding in the four-centred arch. 



The porch is modern, built of timber on low flinr 

 and stone walls. 



From the weJt end of the aisle a plain modern 

 doorway leads to the vestry, which is lighted by a 

 three-light window of the same design as those in the 



Churcf) Capjfoi of Jfatfe Arcade. 



north wall of the adjacent aisle. The south aisle and 

 porch are entirely modern. 



The tower arch is two-centred, of three chamfered 

 orders continued from the jambs with splayed bases 

 and moulded abaci, all of early 13th-century date; 

 and above it is a blocked doorway which opened from 

 the first floor of the tower. All the walls of the 

 tower are extraordinarily thick, being doubtless in- 

 tended to be carried up to a greater height than they 

 now are. The west wall measures 6 ft. 5 in., and in 

 it is a modern two-light window. 



The tower is of two stages, and has a low-pitched 

 roof from which rises a small octagonal spire, covered 

 with oak shingles. In the upper stage are lancets on 

 the north, west, and south aisles, old within, but with 

 their outer stonework renewed, and on the east side 

 is a modern window of two trefoiled lights under a 

 square head. 



The roofs are tiled, the timbers of the chancel, 

 north chapel, and nave being old, and the former 

 having a deep moulded cornice, while the south 

 chapel has a modern panelled ceiling, and the aisles 

 modern lean-to roofs. 



All the internal fittings are modern except the font, 

 which has a 14th-century octagonal bowl on modern 

 round stem and base. The top and bottom of the 

 bowl are moulded, and each of the sides has a panel 

 filled with tracery of a different pattern. The effect 

 is not very successful, but a fair number of similar 

 fonts exist up and down the country Chipstead is a 

 neighbouring example. 



In the lower part of the east window of the north 



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