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EVOLUTION OF THE COUNTRY CHURCHES. 



aisle was obviously the first part built, the boulders on which the 

 angles rested showing inside the church. This was extended 

 westward, the Bell Tower being built either before or during 

 this addition. Finally the north aisle built as at St. Martin's in 

 its entirety. 



This church is noteworthy, as presenting the one with more 

 of the original 15th or 16th century work than any other. None of 

 the windows in the side walls have been altered in their general 

 shape, although the western window on the south wall, has 

 an ornamented head of Flamboyant pattern, which has been 

 redressed to give a semi. circular head. It is however, I am sure, 

 the original stone. The eastern window on the north wall has 

 the centre million removed, making it a one-light window 

 instead of a two-light. In this church the large east and 

 west windows are original, but the tracery has disappeared, and in 

 the west window of the north aisle the sill has been cut down. 



There is a piscina on the south of the east wall of the 

 present chancel of granite and with rather more design and 

 pattern than usually found in the country churches. Its height 

 shows that the floor of the present chancel is higher than it 

 originally was. 



The arcading as at St. Martin's is all of one pattern. There 

 is no groining to the bell tower which is the second smallest and 

 lowest in the Island. 



Another noticeable feature is a recess on the south wall of 

 the original portion of the building, a rude attempt at a wall 

 arcading, possibly meant to contain sedilia. 



