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the others of this form, and is divided into three lights by- 

 two monials branching and intersecting in the head. The three 

 principal windows in the S. wall, however, are different 

 in style, being wide, depressed-segmental or elliptical- 

 headed apertures, each containing three pointed lights. The 

 exterior window-jambs have, in every case, two outer plain- 

 chamfered orders, and an inner or tracery order, hollow- 

 chamfered. The interior jambs consist of a plain splay, with a 

 quirked edge-roll carried up round the rear arch. Over every 

 window, except one in the N. wall of the nave, is a label or 

 dripstone, terminating at each side in a rudely sculptured head. 

 Entrance has been provided to the interior by three doorways, 

 the principal one being at the west end of the S. wall of the 

 nave. It is round-headed; the jambs are composed of two con- 

 tinuous, filleted rolls with a wide hollow between ; and the upper 

 string-course before described is carried round the head as a 

 dripstone. The daylight measures 8 feet from the ground to the 

 crown of the arch, and is 5 feet in width. Another doorway of 

 smaller dimensions,* leading into the chancel through its S. 

 wall, displays in the jambs a single, continuous, filleted roll, the 

 dripstone, as in the first-mentioned example, being merely a 

 continuation of the upper string-course round the head. The 

 third, which is in the N. wall of the nave, is now concealed 

 on the outside by a building recently erected to contain the 

 heating apparatus of the church. There is a blocked doorway 

 in the wall of the south transept, but it is evidently modern. 



The tower is of four stages, each of the three lower vaulted 

 internally, but undistinguished on the outside, except by small, 

 rectangular, chamfered openings in the west face. The upper 

 stage is modern, and is surmounted by a kind of four-sided dome 

 with a belfry above, altogether out of harmony with the rest of 

 the edifice. A wide, square-headed doorway, on the west side of 

 the tower, affords access to the interior of the lowest or ground 

 stage; and an ascent to the upper stages is provided by a newel- 

 stair, placed in a turret occupying the angle between the N. 

 wall of the tower and the W. wall of the nave. 



The aspect of the interior of the church, though not want- 

 ing in impressiveness, is singularly bald. It has a pointed 

 vault, the plainness and bareness of which are only partially 

 relieved by a series of transverse ribs in the nave and chancel, 

 * Not shown on Plan, 



