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



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hands in the attitude of prayer and feet resting on two animals 

 (? lions) ; the figure is vested in chasuble, maniple, and a kind of 

 hood. (Is this the " arched monument to a lady, c. 1350 " referred 

 to by Canon Jackson ?) The other feature^ of this period are the 

 re-modelling of the lancet window in the south wall of the sanctuary 

 and a two-light square-headed window in the south wall of the 

 nave westward of the Church. These are very clumsy in design, 

 but the chisel-pointed cusp stamps them as belonging to the 

 Decorated period; they are probably not later than 1370. 



This Church had its share in the transformations during the 

 15th century, although perhaps less than might have been ex- 

 pected. The first seems to have been the erection of the beautiful 

 porch, with the room over it, and the chapel eastward of it up to 

 the then existing transept, at about 1460. The outer doorway of 

 the porch is moulded with label. Over it is a two-light pointed 

 window to light the upper room, having the peculiarity that the 

 quatrefoil in the head between the lights is not pierced. The porch 

 has a panelled parapet, in the centre of which is an empty niche 

 with groined canopy and crocketted finial. A plain shield on the 

 corbel cloaks the intersection of the cornice. There are diagonal 

 buttresses to the porch, carried up to the top with pinnacles 

 standing square on them at the parapet level, while bases and 

 portions of the shafts of pinnacles (the one on the west does not 

 appear to have been carried higher than at present) stop the 

 parapet against the nave roof. A moulded base and chamfered 

 plinth are carried round porch and buttresses and chapel. The 

 lower stage is vaulted in stone with lierne ribs and carved bosses 

 at the intersections ; two angel-corbels holding shields form the 

 springers against the nave, and two heads those against the outer 

 wall. The inner doorway was inserted in the Norman wall at the 

 same time, and it possesses the same curious base as the outer one. 

 A stoup with trefoil head exists in the wall on the right of it ; the 

 bowl is cut away. There are traces of colour decoration around 

 both doorway and stoup. It is clear from the height of the bench 

 seats that the floor of the porch has been lowered some 7 or 8 

 inches, and the bases of the columns show that this extended to the 



