A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



pied by the third and fourth bays of the nave. The 

 next alteration to this 14th-century church, which 

 had a steep-pitched roof, the line of which was re- 

 vealed against the east wall of the tower in 1878 

 and is still preserved in the plastered face, seems to 

 have been the pulling down of the north side of the 

 new chancel in the 1 5th century and extending it 

 northward to the width of the present aisle. The 

 two arches on this side are the oldest in the church, 

 and are of different section from the others. Later 

 the chancel and its northward extension were further 

 extended by a bay, and the south side rebuilt with 

 three arches opposite those on the north side. The 

 original 14th-century nave appears to have been 

 standing till the beginning of the 1 6th century, 4 when 

 it was pulled down and the present nave arcade con- 

 structed and the clearstory added, leaving a small 

 portion of the 14th-century walls on the west end 

 immediately to the east of the tower. The area of 

 the original building and these three extensions now 

 form the extent of the nave and aisles, a later exten- 

 sion of the chancel having apparently taken place 

 shortly afterwards, early in the i6th century. The 

 chancel was lengthened a further loft, in 1884. 

 The organ chamber north of the chancel was added 

 in 1887. 



The chancel has a large seven-light pointed window 

 on the east with central transom and plain perpen- 



dicular tracery in the head. The lights have rounded 

 heads and are uncusped. On the north side is a 

 modern arch to the organ chamber, and the south wall 

 has a five-light flat-pointed window with double tran- 

 som and rounded heads to the lights. The chancel 

 is open to the nave, and is only less in width by the 

 projection of the chancel walls in front of the nave 

 piers. Both chancel and nave are under one continuous 

 flat-pitched oak panelled roof of modern construction 

 (1884), but following the old lines. 



The nave has an arcade of five pointed arches resting 

 on octagonal piers, with moulded capitals, the arches 

 of two plain chamfered orders, except to the earlier 

 third and fourth bays on the north side, where the 

 chamfers are hollowed. The second pier on the 

 north side shows the junction of this earlier work with 

 the later 15th-century work of the nave in the clumsy 

 thickening out of the pier and the awkward way in 

 which the western arch springs from it. The capitals 

 of the first pier from the west on the north side and 

 those of the later half of the thickened pier are carved 

 with rude stone heads. The nave is lighted by an 

 almost continuous row of square-headed clearstory 

 windows, each of three lights with rounded heads, 

 The aisles have lean-to roofs and wood and plaster 

 ceilings, lighted by a double row of square-headed 

 windows of three and four lights, the walls apparently 

 having been raised and the upper windows intro- 



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6 The date 1510 is inscribed on one of the roof timbers ; Raines, Lanes. 



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