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■what the appearance of a doorway, but Mr. Street supposes it was a 

 niche for a figure. Under the upper doorway was a square-headed 

 recess, which was entirely stripped of its old enrichments; but 

 among fragments, found in various places, of modern fiUing-in of the 

 windows and niches, were pieces of small, delicately moulded 

 tracery, of which Mr. Street managed to put together enough to 

 prove that it came from this recess, and to enable him to effect its 

 restoration. What this triple niche had contained, it was impossible 

 to say; probably three sculptured figures, though the fashion of 

 introducing paintings at this period, makes it possible that these 

 shallow recesses were rather for paintings than for sculpture. The 

 North Transept has all the same arrangements as the South. Here, 

 however, the founder's tomb, and two sedilia in the north wall, 

 were not enough ; and a third seat was obtained in the eastern wall, 

 on the left hand of the altar, which, it is possible, may have been 

 provided for the arch-priest. Sedilia in a north wall are extra- 

 ordinarily rare, if not unique, and in the eastern wall, probably 

 quite so. On the right of the altar was another piscina, very richly 

 moulded; a door leading to a second rood-staircase turret, with a 

 second door above, opening on to the loft, and a recess corresponding 

 with that in the South Transept, through which a hagioscope had 

 been made into the chancel. This recess had tracery of the same 

 kind as the other, but different in its pattern ; and this also Mr. 

 Street has been able to reconstruct from fragments. He has also 

 been able to put together another piece of open tracery, with a 

 battlemented cornice, from the same collection of fragments, but he 

 could not say whence it was removed ; it seemed to fit none of the 

 openings in the walls, and might, perhaps, have formed part of an 

 arcade over one of the altars. — The gables of both transepts are 

 similar, in having above their windows small openings full of most 

 minute tracery. The buttresses of the South Transept are plain ; 

 those of the North Transept are finished with gables, arranged with 

 sockets for finials ; and, among other fragments, there was found 

 half of a small cross, which, doubtless, came from this place. — The 

 rood-staircase turrets had been completely destroyed; but when 

 their doors were discovered, there were found heaped together in a 

 hole in the wall behind them, the broken fragments already 

 mentioned. — The Chancel, of earlier date than the rest of the 

 Church, is lighted with two-light windows, with simple and effective 

 cusped heads. — The east end was all modernized ; but there were 



