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clue to the gradual building up of the building as we see it now; 

 but St. Saviour's has two arches of one pattern and four of a 

 quite different design, of the same as at St. Peter's-in-the-Wood. 

 Tradition states that the eastern end of the church fell down 

 and that when it was rebuilt a new design was used, but I can 

 hardly believe this, as however complete the collapse the indi- 

 vidual stones would not have been so completely broken as to be 

 unusable, and one can hardly imagine the church authorities of 

 the period not making use of suitable stones in the rebuilding. 

 Here, however, we may possibly see the influence of the guild 

 of craftsmen, whom we can picture to ourselves as being on the 

 spot or arriving soon after and being employed to restore the 

 church. They saw a mass of stone, partly dressed, and with 

 the feelings of artists, immediately decided that they could not 

 use the designs of others but could only salve their artistic 

 consciences by rebuilding the fallen portion after their own 

 design and not by slavishly copying some other person's ideas. 

 Whatever may be the true solution of this, the fact remains 

 that a portion of the arcading is of one design and the rest of 

 another and, in Mr. Lee's opinion, of a much debased pattern. 



St. Saviour's is said to possess the only original crosses on 

 the gables left in Guernsey. 



It has at the north-west angle a building similar to 

 the one used as a vestry at the Vale, and I am inclined, 

 after comparing the two, to the opinion that the one at 

 St. Saviour's was originally like the one at the Yale, 

 but had undergone several alterations, such as opening 

 out the doors at the end and blocking up some of the 

 windows at the side, which were not necessary when it was 

 used as coach-house for the parish guns. The entrance into the 

 church is at present masked by the new organ, but it would be 

 comparatively simple to convert it again to the use made of the 

 fellow to it at the Vale. The internal walls have no traces of 

 having been plastered, and my opinion of it is that it was ori- 

 ginally a charnel house. 



The chantry chapel on the south side has a counterpart at 

 the Catel where, however, the chapel is on the north side. 

 There is no record in whose memory or to whom the chapel is 

 dedicated, and it has no piscina to show that an altar ever 

 existed in it. 



ST. PETER'S-IN-THE-WOOD CHURCH. 



As I pointed out in the description of St. Saviour's Church, 

 I trace a strong family resemblance between the two, but as I 

 have already drawn attention to the points of resemblance, I 

 will not go through them again. 



This church consists of three aisles, the centre being longer 

 than the side aisles, which are of equal length. The tower is at 



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