438 Notes on the Churches of Ashley, Berwick Bassett, etc. 



through the eastern one, probably occupying the position of the 

 former stair to the loft. The south arcade is of a different type 

 and slightly earlier, it has octagonal pillars with moulded caps and 

 bases, the responds having demi-shafts, the chamfers of the arches 

 die out on an octagonal drum at the springing, otherwise they are 

 similar to those on the north. 



The north aisle, known as the Pleydell Aisle, has three three- 

 light square-headed windows, with cinquefoil cusping and labels, 

 in the north wall ; there are buttresses square with the walls at 

 the angles and between the windows ; there is a step in the string- 

 course at the east end, the object of which seems obscure. The 

 east window is similar to those on the north, but of two lights. 

 The usual north door opposite the south does not occur. This 

 aisle retains its original roof. 



The south aisle is similarly divided by buttresses on the outside 

 into three bays, and the porch occupies one of these, in each of 

 the other two is a three-light window of somewhat better and 

 earlier type than those of the north aisle, having two orders of 

 mouldings instead of a single one and carved paterae in the label 

 terminals. The west window is quite distinct in character, it is a 

 slightly-pointed one of three lights, with trefoil cusping, each liglit 

 having a trefoil in the tracery. 



The south doorway has jambs and pointed arch moulded with 

 two orders of cavetto, the label having the early terminals before 

 referred to. The porch is of fifteenth century work, this and the 

 chapel having been erected at about the same time, and the em- 

 battled parapets of these continued along the south aisle, the walls 

 of which were already in existence. The outer doorway of the 

 porch has similar mouldings to the inner (although of later date)> 

 and there are diagonal buttresses at the angles. 



The tower is of three stages; the lower has deep plinth and base 

 mould, a three-light west window with labelled arch, and beneath the 

 sill a doorway which is a later insertion ; in the middle stage there 

 are small lights in south and west sides ; the upper stage has a 

 two-light belfry window of bald type in each face, and is sur- 

 mounted by a parapet pierced with five quatrefoils on each side 



