14 THE CHURCH OF ST. HELENS, DARLEY DALE. 



built up ; and there is another of the same style in the south 

 wall of the chancel. It also appears as if the east wall of the 

 porch was built against another small window of this description ; 

 the doorway to the church, under the porch, is of Early 

 English style, and though entirely renewed in 1854, is of the 

 same design as that which was here previous to the restoration. 



To the Decorated period of the fourteenth century belong 

 the arches that separate the nave from the side aisles. Those 

 on the north side are supported by circular pillars of an earlier 

 date than those on the south, which are of octagon construc- 

 tion. The two narrow-pointed archways at the west end next 

 to the tower are older than the rest. They spring from corbels, 

 which are ornamented with the nail-head moulding, and seem 

 to belong to the Early English style. The large north and 

 south windows of the transepts are good examples of flowing 

 Decorated tracery, circa 1330. The south aisle is lighted by 

 two pointed Decorated windows in close juxtaposition ; one of 

 these is the old window from the west end of that aisle, and 

 the other is a new one after the same model. The archway 

 into the chancel is also of this period, as well as the external 

 buttresses and general features of that part of the church. 

 The east window of the chancel is now filled with Perpendicular 

 tracery, and there is a south doorway, with a window over it, of 

 the same character. The north aisle, too, is lighted with 

 windows of the fifteenth century style, but these were inserted 

 at the restoration in 1854. It had previously been lighted with 

 square-headed windows of a debased style and destitute of 

 tracery. There are two clerestory windows above the aisles 

 on each side of the nave, of Perpendicular work; and the 

 tower, though rather eccentric in some of its details, is also of 

 the fifteenth century. The buttresses are unusually shallow for 

 the style. The archway into the tower is now opened, and 

 shows the large west window. Below this window was the 

 wide west entrance, but about the year 1820 this doorway 

 was converted into a window and glazed. The apex of the 

 arch of this doorway is quaintly carved into an animal shape; 



