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roof. Above the apex of the transept roof a roll moulding runs 

 round the tower, with an offset below it. The tower is square, 

 with a two-light window filled in with small louvres in each face 

 {see Plate III.). These lights are contained in a chamfered jamb 

 and arch, with a good hood mould over. Above the mullion and 

 spandrill there is, on three sides a quatrefoil opening, and on the 

 filling in the south side an opening differently treated ; these open- 

 ings are each cut in a single stone, fitted into the spandrill. At 

 each corner of the tower is a detached shaft in an angle nook, 

 springing from a moulded base above the roll moulding. There is 

 a well-moulded band in the centre, and the shafts terminate in a 

 cushion cap. Over each of the capitals, and set anglewise, there is 

 a grotesque head as a corbel, and on a line with them are eleven 

 moulded corbels on each face. These carry an offset, now covered 

 with lead, but which was formerly the commencement of the spire. 

 Above this the second stage begins. This is a very ugly and incon- 

 gruous erection, composed of a double plinth, pilasters at the corners, 

 a circular port-hole filled in with louvres in the centre, and termil 

 nates at the top in a sort of classical moulded cornice with a squat 

 pinnacle at each angle surmounted by a vane. The space between 

 the pinnacles is filled in with a battlemented parapet of Gothic 

 idea. Nothing could be uglier than this termination to the fine 

 early work below. All the tower externally is of ashlar work, thd 

 stones of the earlier work being smaller than the rest. On trig 

 south face, just west of the window, is a large sundial with well 

 cut figures incised on the wall ; the gnomon is wanting. This dial 

 is most likely early seventeenth century work. 



The South Aisle. This aisle is divided into four bays by three 

 large buttresses and ends at the west in a projecting octagonal 

 staircase turret. In the second bay from the east is a doorway 

 with two orders, each a plain chamfer, above which is a square 

 headed two-light window with a splayed jamb. The tracery head 

 is of an ordinary " Decorated " design. Similar windows, but much 

 longer, are in each of the other bays {see Plate II.). None of these 

 are original, but are probably copies of the ancient ones. Some of 

 the jambs may be original work re-tooled ; that they are not in 



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