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two flats or stories, was in later days used as an alms-house 

 for the casual poor. There does not seem, however, to be 

 there or elsewhere in the church any squint for the use of 

 the sick or outcast wanderers. You will see in the south- 

 west pillar of the tower a small door to a chamber which 

 might have been supposed to have been a squint, as it is six 

 feet long and penetrates through the pillar into the wall 

 beyond. The chamber, however, which was only discovered a 

 few years ago, showed no sign of any communication with 

 the outside, and was probably the Awmrey of the church 

 when the east end was at the pillars of the tower, and the 

 altar stood between them. The present Choir, the Vatican 

 record tells us, was "added to" the western portion of the 

 church in 1439 ; "all arched with stone, agreeable to the 

 mode of Peter de Maine." Tlie nave of the church has been 

 badly knocked about and altered, for the roof was once the 

 same height as that of the choir, as you will see from the 

 marking of the water-table on the outside of the tower. At 

 one time it was separated from the rest of the church by a 

 stone and lime partition, and was for many years used as 

 a school. When used as a school there was a door under 

 the window at the west end, but this was built up when 

 the law was passed for the erection of parish schools and 

 sehoolhouses in 1696. 



The porch, which is a very pretty specimen of the 15th 

 century, was added to the original building ; but you will 

 find traces of an original wooden porch inside the stone-work, 

 and a niche for the Virgin's image. On the stone porch, as 

 it now is, you will see the places where wooden dooks held 

 the iron for the lamp in front of the image ; and also on 

 the right side the leaden plug to which the "jougs" were 

 fixed. 



In contrast with the gracefulness of the porch the rest of 

 the building has a strong and massive appearance, with em- 

 battled tower and heavy buttresses. The little oriel window 

 in the east wall relieves the weight of masonry, and the 

 Bishop's coat of arms carved above it on the outside gives 

 it some historical though undecipherable tradition. The glass 

 in this window and in the south transept is by Kempe of 



