A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



prcicnt double n3\e a ^ic, with orpin chamber and 

 vestries eastward, was erected.'" 



The church ii built of wrought stone, which has 

 been renewed in places ; but the lower part of the 

 east 'vall of the chancel is of very rough masonry, 

 being constructed with round and unshaped stones 

 and without plinth. The roofs are covered with 

 stone slates and have overhanging eaves, except to 

 the porch and the south nave aisle, and the work is 

 generally of a very plain description. 



The chancel is +2 I:. 9 in. long by 20 ft. 9 in. 

 in width, and is lit at the east end by a modern five- 

 light pointed window in 15th-century style, with 

 cinquefoiled heads to the lights and tracery over. The 

 roof, which is slightly lower than that of the nave, 

 is also modern and divided into five bays by moulded 

 oak principals plastered between. On each side is 

 an arcade of three pointed arches of two chamfered 

 orders springing from octagonal piers and responds,'" 

 1 a in. in diameter, with moulded caps and bases. 

 The chancel floor has been raised above that of the 

 aisles and is now level with the tops of the bases, the 

 mouldings of which on the south side are plainer in 

 detail than those on the north. Above the arcade 

 on each side are three square-headed, widely-sp.iced 

 clearstory windo.vs, each of three round-headed lights, 

 the westernmost of which on the north side is now 

 below the modem high gabled roof of the new organ 

 chamber transept. The chancel arch, which is of 

 two continuous chamfered orders with moulded hnx, 

 showed signs of giving way in 181 5 and was then 

 restored. E.astward of the arcades is a leng'.h of 

 straight wall 6 ft. long, that on the north side con- 

 taining th- 14th-century doorway already mentioned, 

 with splayed jambs, now used as a seat, the difference 

 of level resulting from the raising of the chancel floor 

 rendering its use as .1 door no longer possible. On 

 the south side is a two-light window, now built up 

 and hl.lden on the inside by a monument, but visible 

 from the exterior. The chance! is inclosed on all 

 three sides by modern oak screens. The north aisle, 

 the eastern end of which is the Banastre chapel, 

 is modern and structurally without antiquarian in- 

 terest, the \valls having been entirely rebuilt and 

 vestries added on the north side. The area, how- 

 ever, remains the same, the east wall having been 

 originally, as now, in line with that of the chancel, 

 the diagonal buttress at this point being probably 

 built only to balance that on the south side.'"' 

 Originally the aisle, which is 1 I ft. wide, had tv. o 

 windows of three and four lights respectively on the 

 north side, and prior to 1S89 there was a small v;stry 

 at the cast end approached by the 14th-century door- 

 way, with a window on the north side and a fireplace 

 on the e.-.5t. There is now a modern four-light 

 traceried w indow at the east end. The south aisle 

 is also 1 1 ft. wide, but the cast wall sets back from 

 that of the chancel 6 ft., and the east end is occupied 

 by the Barnside chapel, formerly belonging to the 

 Townleys of Barnside. The chapel, as well as that 

 on the north side, is divided from the rest of the aisle 

 at the west end by an oak screen, and is 20 ft. in 

 length."* The screens are the original l6th-^enturv 



ones restored, with Gothic tracerj- in the heads of 

 the openings, and the sills and top rails carved with 

 vine pattern or traceried ornament. The south aUlc 

 is lit by an original square-headed four-light window 

 at the east end, and on the south has two windows 

 of similar design, the muUions of which have been 

 renewed, and a modern door at the \\ est end. " 

 The walls of the chancel and aisles as also those 

 of the nave and rest of the church, are plastered, 

 and the chancel aisles are separated from those of the 

 nave by stone arches of two continuous chamfered 

 orders. 



The nave, which is flagged, is 55 ft. by 19 ft., and 

 has an .arcade of four bays on each side with pointed 

 arches of two plain cham'ered orders. The north 

 arcade is supported by circular piers 2 ft. 5 in. in 

 diameter, with moulded bases and capitals, 7 ft. 2 in. 

 high to the springing of the arches, and at the ends 

 by responds of similar character. The piers on the 

 south side are 8 ft. high, and have octagonal shafts 

 20 in. in diameter, with moulded bases and capitals, 

 the arch springing at the cast end from a similar 

 respond and at the we<t dying into the wall. The 

 clearstory consists of four three-light square-headed 

 windows on each side, unequally spaced, and 

 with pointed heads to the lights ; and the roof, 

 which is modern or the 1 6th-century one almost 

 wholly restored, is divided into six bays by two 

 main principals and three intermediate ones 

 plastered between, with half-principals against the 

 end walls. 



The new north inner aisle is the same width 

 (13 ft.) as the original 16th-century one, and is lit at 

 the west end by a four-light pointed window ; and 

 the outer aisle, which is separated from it by an 

 arcade of four pointed arches on octagonal piers, is of 

 the same width, the outer wall being 3 ft. in front of 

 the former wall of the wide north aisle built in 

 1856. It is lit by four traceried windows with 

 segmental heads on the north side, and a pointed 

 window of four lights at the west end similar to that 

 of the inner aisle. The east end is open to the organ 

 chamber under a pointed arch, and the two aisles 

 have separate gabled roofs. 



The south aisle, which has a lean-to roof, preserves 

 most of its 16th-century features, and is lit at the 

 west end by a four-light square-headed window, with 

 two other windows at the eastern end of the south 

 wall. That furthest east is the window which in 

 1862 replaced the one erected in 1733, but which in 

 its turn has given place to a new window of three 

 lights, with transom and plain tracery, in the last 

 restoration. The wall at the east end of the aisle 

 was raised at an early period, and is roofed with a 

 gable which gives it externally the effect of a small 

 transept. West of this is an original four-light 

 square-headed window, and beyond this again, but 

 1 8 ft. from the west wall, the south doorway, which 

 has a pointed head, with moulded jambs and external 

 hood mould ending in carved heads. The door is 

 modern. The porch is 12 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 6 in., 

 and has a stone seat on each side, but is without side 

 windows. The outer opening has a pointed arch 



'■*' The architects were Messrs. Austin 

 OL Paley ot Lancaster. 



'" Except at the east end of the south 

 arcaJe where the arch Jpr'ngj from a 

 ihaped corbel. 



"*■' It is possible, howe.ir, that when 

 the chancel wall was rebuilt in the i6th 

 centur)- the intention was to set back the 

 aisle wall. 



'■'^ The Banaurc chapel is 26 It. in 



length, being longer by the extra 6 ft, in 

 its cast end. 



*■** The position of the doorw.iV has been 

 alterciJ, the original <mc being furthti 

 cast, abo ;t 2 It. from the window. 



