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



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and purlins, also intermediate principals — all moulded. As above 

 mentioned, earlier corbels were re-used for the trusses with the ex- 

 ception of the two against the east wall, which are coeval with the 

 roof. 



There is a two-light pointed window at the east end of each 

 aisle, that of the north being sharp in pitch. The south aisle 

 retains its original Decorated doorway and diagonal buttresses at 

 the south-east angle, but the windows are insertions of a debased 

 type of Perpendicular — one of two lights eastward, and a two-light 

 one westward of the door. It is doubtful if there were any windows, 

 originally, on the north side of the Church, for that wall of the 

 chancel is still blank (with the exception of a modern door), and 

 the aisle has only a debased two-light window and a modern one. 

 The chancel has two three-light original windows, one in the east 

 wall and one in the south, the latter of somewhat peculiar flowing 

 type with the mullions carried through the tracery. This only, of 

 the two, has a label-mould. There are diagonal buttresses at the 

 angles, and a priests' door westward of the south window. The 

 small window near the chancel arch is a modern insertion. In the 

 recess of the south window of the chancel is the stone altar-tomb of 

 Thomas Jay son of a former Rector, dated 1623. In the pier 

 between this and the priests' door is a stone corbel, the use of which 

 is not obvious, and there is a small arched recess (not, apparently, 

 a piscina,) south of the sanctuary. 



The tower and spire are beautiful features ; they form a refreshing 

 object in a spireless locality, and will repay a detailed study. The 

 tower is three stages in height with square buttresses at the outer 

 angles, carried up with 3 set-offs to about one-third of the height 

 of the middle stage. The stages of the tower have very pronounced 

 set-offs, particularly at the lower string-course ; the walls are of 

 good flint work, the dressings and the spire of green sand- stone. 

 The belfry stage has a single-light window in each face with trefoil 

 head, the middle stage a similar one only on the west ; the lower 

 stage has a two-light window in the west wall, and beneath it a 

 dwarf buttress which has evidently been cut down so that, either 

 the window is an insertion, or its sill has been lowered. On the 



