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label of the perpendicular style, which is finished with carved 

 heads ; the spandrels being filled with sprigs, and the mouldings 

 enriched with squarely-cut knobs. Above this door is the tower- 

 window, of four lights, of ordinary perpendicular form; it has 

 been half built up ; one of its muUions is missing, and a wooden 

 frame supplies its place. The belfry lights are plain, of three 

 lights each, with quatrefoils in the head. The newel is built in 

 the thickness of the wall in the north-west angle. The pinnacles 

 are good; each of them consists of four clus- 

 tered shafts springing from grotesques, termi- 

 nating in a group of five pinnacles ; they were 

 much injured by the lightning. The bells are 

 four in number, but only one is whole ; they 

 were all cast in the year 1744, and bear, in ad- 

 dition to that date, the churchwardens' names. 



The outer arch of the porch is four-centred, 

 under a square recess, and is ornamented on 

 the outside with cable mouldings, and on the 

 inside with carved sprigs. The inner doorway 

 arch is segmental, with cable and foliage mould- 

 ings ; one of its spandrels bearing the sacred 

 monogram i f) C ; the other a Greek cross within 

 a circle : over the doorway is a bracket for an 

 image, and on the right hand in entering, a quamt little stoup in 

 its recess in the wall. 



stoup, Mabe. 



