By C.K Pouting, F.S.A. 421 



doorway which was then rebuilt. It would thus appear that 

 narrow Norman aisles were extended to their present widths, 

 the south in the 14th century, and the north early in the 15th. 



The N". aisle is of three bays, and the chapel of one wider bay, 

 divided by buttresses and having diagonal buttresses at the angles. 

 The buttress dividing the chapel from the aisle, although shown 

 in tbe model as like the rest, is much larger, being 3ft. thick and 

 4ft. 6in. in projection and having two set-offs, as against one in 

 the others. 



The two windows of the aisle and the easternmost window of 

 the chapel, although differing to some extent in detail, are all of 

 three lights with pointed arches and labels ; the one in the west 

 end of the aisle is similar, but has been much modernised and re- 

 newed, as also has the flat early buttress here. 1 The parapet and 

 coping are coeval with the rest of the aisle and are continued round 

 the chapel. In the cornice are six unusually good gargoyles of 

 winged monsters and one to the chapel of a very unconventional 

 type, neither animal or foliage. The plinth is carried along the 

 walls and around all buttresses of aisle and chapel. 



The archway between the chapel and the chancel, inserted at 

 the same time, and taking the place of the window removed to the 

 north wall of the former, has three attached wall shafts with caps 

 and bases, the caps of a somewhat unusual form. Eastward of 

 this arch on the chapel side is a simple recessed piscina. The 

 archway between chapel and aisle is of two orders of cavetto carried 

 round jambs and arch. 



We have the evidence of the flat buttresses on either side of the 

 tower, corroborated by that of the north arcade in the model, to 

 prove that the Norman nave extended as far westward as the 

 existing one, but the rebuilding of two bays only of the S. arcade 

 goes to show that this aisle was shorter. Be that as it may, 

 at the later period named the west end of the south aisle was 

 rebuilt — (the diagonal buttress here is modern, but similar to the 



1 It is noticeable that the north clerestory of the nave is set back from 

 the line of this buttress. The second window of the chapel is the 14th 

 century one taken from the chancel wall when the arch was inserted. 



