40 THE CHTJECH OP ST. MICHAEL PENKETEL. 



that sense of grandeur "whicli the simpler, but solider, old work 

 seldom failed to give." The lower stage of the Tower is lighted by 

 a two-light window on either side, and is entered by a doorway with 

 chamfered and moulded jambs, carefully stopped near the ground; 

 over this doorway was a window, which has been restored. The 

 Tower Arch is pointed segmental, springing from corbels supported 

 by two full-length figures. The belfry windows are large, with 

 bold oak luffers ; and there is ample room for the peal of six or eight 

 bells which the noble founder proposes to provide. 



The Nave proper is short, and had north and south doorways, 

 one window of two lights on each side, and then the arches opening 

 into the transepts. The windows were both destroyed, and that on 

 the north blocked up; the jambs, sills, and inside arch, however, 

 were found by cutting into the wall, but no remains of the tracery ; 

 new tracery has consequently been inserted ; the old outline, jambs, 

 and inside arch being preserved. The south door has well moulded 

 jambs, and opens into the South Porch, The north door is simpler, 

 and, before the restoration, opened into a modern vestry erected 

 against the north wall of the nave. The transept arches differed : 

 that on the south was a circular segmental arch of two chamfered 

 orders ; it looked early, but was partly made up of older work, and 

 it was in so ruinous and decayed a state that it had been thought 

 safer, on the whole, to repeat exactly the arch on the opposite side 

 opening into the north transept. This is richly moulded, and is a 

 pointed segmental arch, with a label on the side towards the transept 

 only. 



The two Transepts are the most interesting portion of the whole 

 Church. They are curiously similar in all their arrangements, and 

 these are of a very unusual kind. The South Transept had a three- 

 light window in the south gable, of which the tracery was destroyed, 

 and another in the east wall, which had retained its old rich tracery 

 nearly intact. Below the south window is an arched recess for a 

 monument ; and east of this are two sedilia with cinque-foiled heads 

 under segmental arches. The altar stood, no doubt, under the east 

 window, and on its right hand side in the east wall is a very richly 

 moulded piscina. On the left of the window is a most complex 

 arrangement of doors and niches. There is the old door into the 

 rood-staircase turret; and above, to the left, the doorway which 

 opened from the staircase on to the rood-loft. Above the lower 

 door is an arch, recessed about six inches in the wall ; it has some- 



