By E. Towry Whytc, M.A., F.S.A. 605 



their ancient state is clear from the broad band of tooling running 

 down them, which is an eighteenth century style of mason's work. 

 There is a plain chamfered plinth near the ground level, and a 

 three-quarters round string under the parapet, which has an 

 ordinary roll-top coping. The roof of the aisle is flat and covered 

 with lead ; it is above the level of the roof, as intended when the 

 parapet was built. The main portion of this aisle belongs to the 

 " Decorated " period, I think. 



The Nave Clerestory has four two-light windows with square 

 heads filled in with " Perpendicular " tracery with ashlar walling 

 between, and dating from about 1450. All along above the heads 

 of the windows is a classical cornice intended to act as the rain- 

 water gutter of the roof, which is of tiles. Four large iron clamps 

 show on the outside, which have been inserted at some time to 

 strengthen the roof principals. At the west end of the aisle the 

 turret alluded to above is carried up above the roof to give access 

 to the lead flat. It is covered with a pyramidal stone roof termi- 

 nating in a finial. In the western wall of the south aisle are re- 

 mains of the earlier aisle, with a small " Early English " window. 

 The west end of the nave has two buttresses with plinths at a 

 higher level than that running round the aisles. There is a five- 

 light window, by Wyatt, meant to be in the " Decorated " style. 

 I believe this window took the place of three lancets, which 

 probably were the original windows of the early nave. Under the 

 window is a. doorway similar to that in the south aisle ; it is covered 

 by a porch with low walls and stone seats and a rough open timber 

 roof of arched rafters covered with stone slates of the roughest 

 sort. This porch is very low and the rafters are below the outer 

 order of the doorway. Above the window the classical cornice, 

 already mentioned, runs as a string course. The gable over is 

 plain, but shows in places the pitch of the early roof, indicating 

 thereby that it was not re-bnilt when the cornice was put in. The 

 end of the north aisle has no window, but there are traces of the 

 pitch and height of the old aisle, also of the width of the old nave 

 1 wall, and the corbel springers of the old western gable still exist 

 below the aisle parapet. At the northern end of the aisle are 



