By G. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 423 



On the apex of the east gable is a stone bell-cot ; an ogee-arched 

 opening between plain sides, in which a bell still hangs. The finial 

 on this and those at the angles of this gable were added in 1846. 



The roof of the nave is coeval with the clerestory, a lead-covered 

 tie-beam roof, of flat pitch, with wall-braces resting on good stone 

 corbels of carved heads of 14th century type, five on each side ; the 

 central one represents a king, three others on the south and one on 

 the north represent other men, and one on the south and three on the 

 north represent women, one wearing the wimple. The other roofs 

 of the Church are modern, as also the stone corbelling inserted in 

 the clerestory under that of the N. aisle, but that of the S. aisle 

 retains two 15th century stone corbels of men's heads — one a king. 



The S, porch retains its walls and quoins, the lower parts of its 

 copings, and the inside stone benches, probably of the 15th century; 

 but on the outer doorway the gable cross and apex stone have been 

 renewed, and the east window is an entirely new feature. The 

 floor is four steps below the ground and the nave floor two steps 

 lower still. The inner arch of the Norman doorway is an addition 

 made when the rebuilding took place in the 15th century. There 

 are traces of colour on the Norman work. 



At the E. end of the S, aisle under the 14th century window is 

 the framework of a stone reredos 7ft. 7in. long and 1ft. 4in. high ; 

 the sill is plain, the jambs are rebated and have a small roll mould 

 and the same work is continued around the head in which are cut 

 thirteen arches as if for figures, the central one wider and higher 

 than the rest {Fig. 6) . This arrangement at once suggests the sculp- 

 ture having been a rood and the twelve apostles. The upper edge of 

 the head is embattled in a simple manner. The whole work, although 

 most interesting, is very rude, and was evidently executed by an 

 unskilled workman, which makes it difficult to assign a date to it ; 

 the head is cut in between the jambs of the Decorated window over, 

 and the reredos may probably be a 16th century insertion. 



The south wall of this aisle has been re- built in two sections, the 



part eastward of the porch when the two windows shown by the 



model of 1835 and the photograph of 1846 were inserted, and the 



j westward part and angle buttress at the time of the restoration in 



