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porch, built in place of the earlier one which had a 

 steeper gable, is also of the fifteenth century. There 

 was once also a steep-gabled porch over the north 

 doorway, as shown by the marks still seen on the wall 

 above the door. The window in the south aisle 

 between the porch and the east wall is evidently of 

 much later date, probably the end of the sixteenth 

 century. The east window of the chancel is of early 

 fourteenth-century date, of three lights, with an unusual 

 form of tracery, the two outer lights appearing to 

 have had pointed heads without cusps, but half the 

 head of each light seems to have been cut away 

 (if it ever existed), the pointed form of the head 

 being kept only by the glass. The middle light of 

 the window is trefoiled with small flowing openings 

 above it in the apex of the arch. In the south wall 

 are contemporary segmental-headed windows, each 

 of two trefoiled lights with cusped tracery in the 

 head. Between these windows is a small fifteenth- 



having moulded capitals and bases and arches of two- 

 moulded orders. 



The north chapel is unusually large, the eastern 

 part of it being full of monuments of the Burgoyne 

 family. The east window is of three cinquefoiled 

 lights, the tracery being a fifteenth-century insertion 

 in fourteenth-century jambs and heads. In the north 

 wall are two sixteenth-century windows, each of three 

 uncusped lights under a four-centred head, the eastern 

 of the two being blocked by a Burgoyne monument. 

 There is a plain north doorway with traces of a 

 porch over it, and the west window is of three lights of 

 fifteenth-century date. The walls have been raised 

 and a parapet added in the fifteenth century, a low- 

 pitched roof being put on at the same time, and 

 the original fourteenth-century buttresses have been 

 strengthened with additional masonry. 



The south arcade has piers of four engaged shafts 

 with keeled rolls in the angles, with moulded capitals 



Sutton Church, from South-east 



century doorway and part of the head of a blocked 

 pointed doorway, which may be of thirteenth-century 

 date. 



At the north-west of the chancel is a two-light 

 window with fifteenth-century tracery. The vestry 

 at the north-east is completely destroyed, but the door 

 which led into it still remains, with a wide arched 

 recess to the east of it in the north wall of the 

 chancel. 



In the south wall of the chancel are three sedilia 

 with crocketed ogee heads and finials, and to the east 

 of them a double piscina, all of early fourteenth- 

 century date and of very good detail. 



The chancel arch of the same date is of two orders, 

 wave-moulded, with a groove at the eastern angle of 

 the inner order for the boarding which filled the arch 

 behind the rood. 



The nave has arcades of four bays, that on the 

 north being c. 1330, with piers of four engaged shafts 



and pointed arches of two hollow-chamfered orders. 

 The south aisle has a modern three-light east window, 

 and on the south a plain square-headed two-light 

 window, probably of no great age. To the west of 

 it is the south doorway, which has a deeply-moulded 

 thirteenth-century arch of two orders and round 

 moulded capitals, which formerly rested on detached 

 shafts now cut away. 



The porch is a fifteenth-century addition with 

 small two-light windows on east and west and stone 

 benches along the walls ; the outer arch is two-cen- 

 tered under a square head with tracery in the spandrels. 

 It replaces an older porch, the traces of whose steep- 

 pitched roof remain over the inner doorway. West 

 of the porch is a three-light window contemporary 

 with it, and in the west wall of the aisle is a modern 

 copy of a two-light fifteenth-century window. 



The tower appears to be a late fifteenth-century 

 building much repaired in the seventeenth, the date 



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