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of the chancel : the removal of the east wall and arch must, there - 

 fore, have taken place before the chaneel roof was put on, and this 

 appears to have been not later than the middle of the thirteenth 

 century. 



The chancel — erected at the period I have just mentioned — comes 

 next in date, and retains its original trussed rafter roof, which the 

 Rector has just had opened out and repaired. One of the lancet 

 windows exists intact, and the remains of the other three in the 

 side walls can be seen : one of these has been cut into for the modern 

 entrance to the vestry, and in the others we have what Mr. Hadow 

 tells me has been regarded as an archaeological crux — Mr. Parker 

 having once pronounced them to be Saxon. I should have great 

 hesitation in expressing an opinion contrary to so high an authority 

 if I had not been afforded better opportunities of confirming that 

 which I at first formed than Mr. Parker had, for I have been engaged 

 in clearing off the modern plaster which cloaked the inside of 

 the windows. I have little doubt that these curious looking 

 openings have been inserted in the jambs of the thirteenth century 

 windows. The east window is an insertion of late fourteenth 

 century date. There are remains of a wooden aumbry in the east 

 wall of the chancel, but no indications of a second altar in the 

 Church. The piscina in the chancel is coeval with the walls- 

 thirteenth century. The doorway into the nave was originally on 

 the south side, but this has been done away with, and a modern 

 transept and porch added, which now form the entrance. The bowl 

 of the font is probably of thirteenth century date. The nave 

 possesses a trussed-rafter roof, above the modern ceiling, of a slightly 

 later type than that of the chancel, and there is a specially -framed 

 truss to carry the bell -turret. It is a pity that these interesting 

 features should be hidden. The rest of the Church has been 

 ruined by modern alterations, and the windows of the nave have no 

 claim to antiquity. It is noticeable that the Church is devoid of 

 buttresses, if we except those erected within recent times. It may 

 be of interest to mention that the walls of the chancel were ap- 

 parently left bare on the inside. On the modern plastering being 

 removed recently, it was found that the face of the stones beneath 



