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(no colour is visible) The other is indistinct, but the two outer 

 ones have mitres (?). Of the figures below, the right-hand one 

 wears a helmet. 



Above the cross are two heads, one full-faced and the other in 

 profile. Below the arms of the cross are eight busts, four over 

 each side of the central stem. All looking upwards towards the 

 cross, excepting a female figure on the right. These are all outlined 

 in black, with green colour in some of them. One of the figures 

 has slashed doublet, another has a peaked hat ; the lady's dress is 

 distinctly not mediaeval, and the whole looks late. These are above 

 the level of the apex of arch and the sills of two windows. Below this 

 is the Decalogue. Traces of an ornament below this, of olive leaf. 



T!ie black letter is continued on the north wall. On south aisle 

 and chancel arch there is an all-over sort of ornamentation in red. 



Inside the south porch. Over the outer doorway is a well-pre- 

 served painting representing the head of Christ, with a crown of 

 thorns, and surrounded by a cruciform nimbus in yellow and red. 

 The head has light hair, and a collar surrounds the neck. No other 

 part of the body can have existed as the liead is close down to the 

 apex of the arch ; pomegranate decoration exists on each side of 

 this, coming down on to the arch. The porch was cut in two by 

 a floor and a fireplace has been constructed in the upper part (all 

 modern), so that much of the latter was destroyed. 



The nave arcades being of late fourteenth or early fifteenth 

 century date, and the original decoration being of a geometrical 

 pattern, the subject paintings can hardly be earlier than the 

 fifteenth century, but they are not, apparently, hiter than 1450. 



The subject on tlie east wall had becMi washed over and iIk' 

 Decalogue painted in black letter; parts of this, of the third and 

 fourth coniniandnients, have been preserved, also tlie words " Fear 

 God Honor the King," below the rest. 



The a])()\(^ nolvs were wriltiMi bcfort' the wlmlr of the later 

 wluLewash had Ixmmi ]>('o1(mI oil'. Since then a medallion })ainting 

 has been opened out on (he i»illai- ct' t he snuih aisK\ facing t he 

 south entrance. It is about I^in. hi-h, and the sid)jeel is a repri'- 

 senlal loll of ( )ur Lord nficr 1 hi> Ivcsuireet ion standing' in the tond» 



