By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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trough, with stone shoot carried through the wall to the outside. 

 The sill of the east window is lower than that of the north ; this, 

 with the piscina, points to there having been an altar here. Some 

 coeval joint decoration and old tiles remain. This erection has been 

 pronounced to be the base of a tower, but this seems improbable. 



The original north aisle appears to have been pulled down and 

 the present one erected, both longer and wider than the nave, in 

 the last quarter of the 14th century. It was evidently intended as 

 a chantry, as there is an elaborate piscina enriched with the ball- 

 flower in the east respond between the aisle and the nave, pierced 

 quite through the respond and serving also as a squint for the use 

 of the attendant at the sanctus bell. There is also a large aumbry 

 in the north wall of the sanctuary. The large dimensions of this 

 chapel (it being about 69ft. long by 20ft. wide inside) are evidence 

 of the high importance of its original foundation ; the design is 

 most beautiful, and the pure details of mouldings, &c, are of the 

 best type of the work of that period. A bold string-course ran 

 across the east end inside : this, having been destroyed, has been 

 restored from a fragment discovered in situ. There are three-light 

 windows on east and west, and three two-light windows on the south, 

 all pointed, with exquisite tracery and moulded labels. A string- 

 course runs along under the sills outside. The six buttresses are 

 also of fine proportion. There is a doorway in the north wall 2ft. 8in. 

 above the floor ; the easternmost window on this side has its sill 

 and outside string-course dropped as if for use as a sanctus window. 

 In the floor of this chapel is a slab with an inscription denoting the 

 existence of the vault of the Grove family beneath. 



The south aisle was re-constructed during the third quarter of 

 the 15th century, and, apparently, on the Norman foundations ; 

 the Norman doorway remains in situ. This has a pointed arch of 

 two orders, the outer having a bold roll and the inner a small splay, 

 above this a label; the jambs have angle shafts with early-looking 

 capitals and moulded bases. A later stoup has been cut in the east 

 jamb and there are traces of colour decoration of a jointed pattern. 

 This aisle was so much damaged by the fall of the spire in 1817 

 that the east end from the springing of the window, upwards, and 



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