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which make a permanent centnng for the relieving 

 arches, but the north windows are treated in a more 

 ordinary manner. At the north-west and south-west 

 of the chancel pointed arches of two chamfered 

 orders with half-round responds and plainly-moulded 

 capitals open to the north chapel and south vestry ; 

 the roll string, which runs round the chancel below 

 the window-sills, is level with the capitals of the 

 arches. In the east wall, behind the altar, is a large 

 rectangular recess which doubtless served as a place to 

 keep some of the church possessions, and on either 

 side of the altar are smaller recesses, with arched 

 heads, that to the south having at the back a wooden 

 beam, and in it a sinking which may have served as 

 the base of a flue. 



The piscina, at the south-east, has a trefoiled head, 

 and may be of the I 5th century. 



The north chapel has an east window of three 

 cinqucfoiled lights with tracery, of i 5th-century date, 

 containing a good deal of contemporary glass, mostly 

 in jumbled fragments. The tracery lights are in 

 better condition, and have St. Bartholomew and St. 

 Matthew in the two middle lights, with St. John 

 Baptist and St. Paul on either side, and seraphs in 

 the outer lights. The canopies in the main lights 

 are in fairly perfect condition, but all the rest of the 

 centre light is filled with fragments, many of which 

 are inscribed with parts of the Apostles' Creed. 



The north window is of the same character, but 

 of four lights, with a transom in the tracery above, 

 and at the north-west is a small four-centred doorway 

 with a square label and carved spandrels. In the 

 south wall is a very beautiful 13th-century piscina, 

 with a moulded trefoil arch and engaged shafts set in 

 a panel of diapered stonework surrounded by a 

 moulded string. Over the arch is a label enriched 

 with small dogtooth ornament, now unfortunately 

 much clogged with whitewash. 



The south vestry is modern, but its east wall is 

 apparently on the line of that of the former south 

 chapel, and in its east window of 14th-century type 

 a few old stones are re-used. On the south is a modern 

 doorway, and the arch opening to the chancel is filled 

 with a i 5th-century screen, the upper panels of which 

 have open tracery with cusps ending in carved heads. 

 The sill of the screen is a re-used beam with church- 

 wardens' names and the date 1 709. 



The nave is of four bays, the arcades having circu- 

 lar columns with moulded capitals and bases, and 

 clustered responds with three shafts. The bases all 

 show the characteristic hollow moulding, but the 

 capitals are of several different sections, and some have 

 been cut back and re-worked. The arches are pointed, 

 of two chamfered orders, and have a filleted label. 

 There is no clearstory and the ceiling is a plaster cove 

 of 18th-century date. 



The north aisle is lit by three three-light windows. 

 The first two are of 1 4th-century date with trefoiled 

 heads and flowing tracery. Between these is the 

 north door, of late 14th-century date, the head and 

 jambs continuously moulded with a double ogee. 

 West of the second window is a square-headed 15th- 

 century window of three cinqucfoiled lights with 

 tracery over, while in the west wall is a small re-set 

 and restored 14th-century trefoil light. At the east 

 end of this aisle are the remains of the rood-stair, 

 with both upper and lower doorways. The north 

 porch is of late 14th-century date with an embattled 



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parapet, and has east and west windows of two tre- 

 foiled lights with a quatrefoil over. 



The south aisle has at the south-east a much-re- 

 stored five-light 15th-century window, with a straight- 

 lined head, the tracery being quite modern. Beneath 

 it is a 15th-century piscina with a trefoiled head and 

 a stone shelf. West of this window is the south door, 

 of late 14th-century date with a continuous moulding 

 and an external label. The two remaining south win- 

 dows and the west window correspond to those in the 

 same positions in the north aisle. 



The tower is an unusually fine specimen of its 

 period, and is of three stages with corner buttresses to 

 the ground stage and a stair in the south-west angle. 

 The tower arch is of three chamfered orders, the two 

 outer dying into the two square orders of the jambs, 

 whil: the inner is supported upon almost completely 

 detached round shafts with circular capitals. The west 

 door is of three continuous chamfered orders with a label, 

 and above it are three modern lancets within a shafted 

 I 3th-century recess with a moulded two-centred head. 

 There are narrow moulded lights in the second stage, 

 except on the east side, where the pitch of the original 

 roof rises to the base of the belfry stage. The belfry 

 stage is arcadcd on each face with five moulded arches 

 springing from circular shafts with capitals and bases. 

 The first, third, and fifth arches on each face are blind, 

 but the second and fourth have window openings filled 

 with luffer boards. Above is a line of corbels carry- 

 ing a plain parapet. 



The roof of the chancel is modern and of the same 

 pitch and height as the old roof. That of the nave 

 is hidden by the coved ceiling already noted, and is of 

 lower pitch than the original roof. The roof of the 

 north chapel is of I ;th-century date with moulded 

 timbers and wall brackets carried by carved corbels. 



The font stands close to the western pillar of the 

 south arcade, and is of late 1 2th-century date, with a 

 tapering circular bowl on a moulded base, resting on 

 a pentagonal block of stone. The bowl has a band 

 of foliage, in which is a dragon, round its upper part, 

 and has tall and narrow scalloped ornament below. 



There is a considerable quantity of old woodwork 

 re-used, including some bench ends with fleur-de-lis 

 finials. On one of the latter is carved a plough and 

 the letter A, and on another a tun, from which springs 

 a small spray of foliage, and the letters W and R. 

 There are also some remains of 15th-century screens, 

 one length between the tower and the nave, and others 

 between the north aisle and chapel and between the 

 chancel and vestry. The lower panels are solid, and 

 the upper pierced with traceried heads of normal type. 

 The double door in the north porch bears on an upper 

 rail the initials G. W. and T. G. and the date 1637, 

 and has had an ingenious arrangement of weights and 

 pulleys to keep it closed 



On the south wall of the chancel is a small marble 

 monument to John Marriott, 1677, ornamented with 

 wreaths and cherubs' heads and a cartouche bearing 

 the Marriott arms impaling Ermine six roundels. In 

 the north chapel is another w.ill monument to Rich- 

 ard Beake, 1627, with the Beakearms impaling Ermine 

 on a bend three cinque foils. Near this is preserved 

 a funeral helmet. In the same part of the church are 

 the remains of some brasses. One is the figure of a 

 priest wearing a long-sleeved cassock and fur almuce 

 with, beneath, the inscription : ' Hie jacet Thomas 

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