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ECCLESTON 



type struck from centres below the springing. The 

 imposts are new. 



The south chancel aisle has a new three-light 

 window at the east end and two three-light windows 

 similar to those in the nave aisle on the south side. 

 Between the windows is a priest's door 2 ft. 3 in. 

 wide, with moulded jambs and he.id.' The 

 piscina in the east end of the south wall has a 

 pointed head, with all the outer mouldings cut away, 

 a hollow chamfer alone remaining. The east end of 

 the aisle has a raised boarded floor and is seated, the 

 west end being occupied by the organ. There is a 

 stone arch of two chamfered orders between the 

 aisles, and they are now further separated by a solid 

 modern oak screen inclosing the organ. 



The nave arcade consists of four pointed arches of 

 two plain chamfered orders springing from octagonal 

 piers with moulded caps and bases and from corbels 

 at either end. The walls are of dressed stone and on 

 the north side are three modern two-light windows 



seen, but it has been cut away when the west wall of 

 the aisle was built. On the north side of the tower 

 outside the lower slope of the old roof was originally 

 behind the north-east buttress, but when the wall was 

 raised and the new roof erected the buttress, which 

 also formed the west wall of the nave north of the 

 tower, was left unaltered, the result being that the 

 new roof showed awkwardly above the slope of the 

 second stage, and so remains. The aisle has two 

 windows on the south side with three uncusped 

 pointed lights under a four-centred head, without 

 hood moulds, and a similar window at the west end. 

 The roof is plastered between the spans, and the 

 principal rafters like those of the nave have been re- 

 Msed. The porch has an outer four-centred low 

 arch springing from moulded imposts, and a gable 

 over with flat coping and a small niche. The apex 

 has a ball ornament but the ends classic urns. The 

 roof has overhanging eaves and the side walls, which 

 are without windows, have stone seats. The inner 



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South Aisle 



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 Plan of Ecclestcn Church 



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with a doorway in the west end, now made up on the 

 inside, under an external pointed arch, with hollow 

 chamfered jambs and head and retaining an old oak 

 nail-studded door. The nave roof is substantially 

 that erected in 1722, but the timbers were re-cased in 

 1868-9, ^° 18th-century plaster ceiling taken down, 

 and the spaces between newly boarded. Portions 

 of a 16th-century roof were apparently used up in 

 the 18th-century reconstruction, one of the beams 

 having on each side the date 1 5 34.' The roof is 

 divided into six bays by five main principals and one 

 at each end against the wall resting on 18th-century 

 stone corbels. The raising of the nave walls shows 

 internally, more especially on the south side, over the 

 arcade where the two new courses of gritstone come 

 just above the arches, and part of the line of the old 

 roof shows on the east side of the tower. At the 

 west end of the nave, as well as from the outside, 

 part of the south-east buttress of the tower can be 



doorway is pointed with continuous double-sunk 

 chamfered jambs and head . The door is modern. 



The tower is of two stages with diagonal buttresses, 

 the lower part being quite plain on the north and 

 south sides. The west window is modern of two 

 lights, replacing, as already stated, a former door, and 

 the tower arch, which is filled with a glazed screen, 

 is, like that of the chancel, a sharply-pointed one 

 of two chamfered orders running down the jambs 

 to the ground. The upper or belfry stage sets back 

 about a foot and has a pointed window with external 

 hood mould of two trefoiled lights and quatrefoil 

 above on each face. The walls terminate in a string 

 course and straight parapet with square angle pinnacles 

 formerly surmounted by urns and cock vanes. There 

 were originally also intermediate ornaments on each 

 side, but only that on the north remains, the others 

 lying broken on the roof On the south side of the 

 parapet is the date 1733. the year of its erection. 



■ There i. a shuttle cut on the exterior of the wall near the characters but the figure, very good specimens of the Arabic 

 priest's door. numerals of the time. 



'It reads 'Anno Dni 1534.* The letters are in Gothic 



