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the entrance to the church. The latter has two horizontal grooves 

 in the jambs, continued round the wall at the back, which have 

 evidently supported shelving. 



The remains of the Church are so well known that a minute 

 description of it is scarcely necessary. It was 190 feet in length, 

 and consisted of a six-bayed nave, 98 feet long by 28 feet wide, 

 with north and south aisles, 13 feet 4 inches, and 14 feet wide 

 respectively ; a transept 85 feet by 20 feet, with eastern aisles ; 

 a choir of two bays, 36 feet long ; and a presbytery of nearly 

 the same length, by about 24^ feet in width. 



Of the nave, the great west doorway, the wall of the south aisle, 

 containing two piscina-niches, one of which has a basin, and the 

 other marks of a credence-shelf, traces of the wall of the north 

 aisle, with a doorway near its west end, and portions of some of 

 the piUars,remain. The great doorway is round-headed and shows 

 four continuous, moulded orders, composed of broadly filleted 

 rolls, with hollows, round and angular alternately, sunk between, 

 in two of which are inserted knobbed flower-ornaments of rather 

 stiff design. (Fig. 29.) Mr Morton, and many local guide- 

 "books following him, speak of this doorway as Norman ; but, 



