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dates of 1750 and 1762 appear on two other windows on the 

 same wall, no doubt the date of their conversion and enlarge- 

 ment. The date 1837 appears on three other windows in this 

 church, and is probably the date of their being fitted with the 

 pointed sash windows, once so common in Guernsey, and of 

 which these are the last remaining. In the Chantry Chapel, 

 the east window has a square head, with piercings for glass, (it 

 is hardly worthy of the word tracery) showing Flamboyant 

 work. It appears to have once been a two-light window, but 

 the centre mullion has been removed and it is fitted up with an 

 ordinary sash window. 



There is a piscina on the east wall of the south aisle, now 

 used as a chancel. On the opposite wall is a priest's door, or 

 rather the upper part only, showing that the level of the floor 

 had been raised at some restoration. This doorway shows on 

 the outside w T all although it is masked by a buttress. It is the 

 most perfect priest's door in Guernsey. 



The very massive supports to the Tower are worthy of 

 notice, and also the groining of the bell loft, which is the finest 

 in Guernsey after the Town Church. 



The Chantry Chapel on the north side is not a common 

 feature in Guernsey, the only other example being at St. 

 Saviour's, where however it is on the south side. 



The frescoes in the east end of the north aisle have been 

 dealt with elsewhere, and are not in the scope of this paper. 



The level of the floor, as observed above, has been consider- 

 ably interfered with and the present chancel is about 3 feet 

 higher than it was originally. 



ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH. 



This church is by far the largest in area of the country 

 churches of Guernsey. This is not generally appreciated, and 

 came as a surprise to me. It is in a pair with St. Peter's-in-the- 

 Wood and the same builders were undoubtedly concerned with 

 the building of both. Probably one of those roving bands or 

 guilds of church builders were on a visit to the island and the 

 proximity of the two churches gave them the opportunity of 

 dealing with them. 



Let me go through the points of similarity : — 



1st. — The towers have a strong resemblance to one an- 

 other, the windows have the same simple tracery, both the 

 towers are battlemented, both towers have angle buttresses, the 

 only instances in the island, and further are the only towers of 

 dressed stone in the country with the exception ot St. Andrew's, 

 with which tower also they have some resemblance. 



2nd. — The arcading of the aisles has the same or rather 

 similar mouldings and the new portion at St. Saviour's might 

 almost have been a replica of St. Peter's-in-the-Wood. 



