A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



north and south walls, and there are traces of a lower 

 steep-pitched roof. The chancel arch is of two cham- 

 fered orders with a defaced label on its western face, 

 the inner resting on ha'f-octagonal shafts with moulded 

 capitals and bases; it appears to date from c. 1330. 

 On the north side of the nave is an arcade of 

 four bays, the three eastern of which, c. 1170, have 

 semicircular arches of two square orders, with square 

 capitals and circular columns. The abaci are moulded 

 with a hollow between two rolls, and the capitals, 

 which are shallow and spreading, are worked with 

 boldly projecting foliate volutes on broad stems in 

 very low relief. The respond of the western arch is 

 of the same character, having been moved one bay 

 westward when the arcade was lengthened, and the 

 pillar which takes its place has a simply moulded 

 circular capital of 13th-century date, the arch in this 

 bay being pointed of two chamfered orders. Above 

 the crowns of the arches are traces of square clearstory 

 openings of uncertain but probably late date. The 

 south wall of the nave is in part of 12th-century date, 

 and the position of its original south doorway is to be 

 seen in the masonry a little to the east of the present 



not be dated by ordinary rules. The east window of 

 the transept is 15th-century work of two lights. 



The north aisle is lighted by two square-headed 

 two-light windows on the north, of 15th-century 

 date, and between them is a small four-centred north 

 doorway of the same period. The west window of 

 the aisle is a small lancet, which may be in part of the 

 1 3th century, but both its head and sill are modern. 



In the south wall of the nave are two two-light 

 windows with a sixfoil in the head, both being to the 

 west of the south doorway. They are of I 5th-century 

 style, the first being quite modern, and the other 

 having modern tracery. Between the doorway and 

 the south transept is a blocked I yth-century window 

 of three square-headed lights, high in the wall, which 

 must have formerly lighted a gallery or pulpit. The 

 south doorway has a semicircular head o! two orders 

 with late 12th-century detail, zigzag and a keeled roil, 

 only a few of the voussoirs being old, and nook-shafts 

 with capitals of poor style, but of 1 2th-century date. 

 The old work in the doorway is about contemporary 

 with the north arcade, and if, as seems possible, it has 

 been taken from the older doorway a little further to 



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doorway, which is made up of the materials of its 

 predecessor. The nave walls have been heightened, 

 the line of an older steep-pitched roof showing on 

 the east face of the tower. The north transept 

 appears to be an early 14th-century addition, and 

 has a north window of two uncusped lights, with a 

 plain circle over, and a 15th-century east window of 

 two cinquefoiled lights with a sixfoil over. In its 

 west wall is a small square-headed ijth-century 

 opening, now blocked, and the transept opens to the 

 aisle by a plain pointed arch whose southern respond 

 is built against the first column of the north arcade. 

 The south transept is considerably larger than the 

 north, and was doubtless the Lady chapel. It has 

 three lancets on the south and one on the west, nearly 

 all modern, the head of the western window being 

 cut out of an old stone carved with a rosette. The 

 arch from the nave to the transept is a very rough 

 piece of work with chamfered orders, the inner of 

 which springs from clumsily moulded circular capitals 

 resting on circular shafts ; it may be the work of 

 untrained local masons in the 1 3th century, but can- 



the east after the lengthening of the nave, it must be 

 assumed that a still earlier doorway formerly existed 

 here, belonging to the aisleless 1 2th-century church. 

 The south porch is entirely modern, but has at its- 

 north-east angle a holy-water stone. 



The tower is of mid- 14th-century date, but has 

 been very much repaired. It is of three stages with 

 a tiled roof, gabled east and west, and plain parapet 

 resting on a corbel table, carved into ball flowers and 

 grotesques. The belfry windows are of two lights 

 with modern tracery, but the opening and labels are 

 original, and over each is a gargoyle. The tower 

 stairs are in a square south-east turret entered through 

 a 14th-century internal door, and have recently been 

 capped with a pyramidal stone roof. The west 

 window of the ground stage is of two trefoiled lights 

 with tracery over and an ogee label. Below it is an 

 original dcorway very much restored, and with con- 

 tinuously moulded jambs and head, and the east arch 

 of the tower is of three wave-moulded orders with a 

 label returned as a string to the side walls of the nave. 



The roofs and the fittings throughout are largely 



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