4> Notes on the Church of St. Mary 



imposing range of windows in the clerestory on each side. No trace 

 of these was discernible until the plaster was recently removed from 

 the inside face of the walls, when the lower parts of the windows 

 were discovered. The outer jambs were removed when the clerestory 

 was re-built in the fifteenth century, but the direction of the jamb 

 splays indicates that they consisted of single lights about 17in. 

 wide on the exterior, widening out to about 4ft. 4in. on the inside. 

 The sills are also deeply splayed, the inner being about 3ft. 6in. 

 deeper than the outer ones, so that the windows on the inside were 

 little short of 12ft. high. The remains of these are shewn on the 

 interior elevation of the north side of the nave, given in Fig. 2, 

 Plate I. It will be noticed that the windows are placed over the 

 piers, an unusual arrangement, and one whieh is only found in very 

 early work. The Church of Battle, Sussex, is a somewhat similar 

 instance ; there the Transitional arcade and clerestory remain intact. 

 But Bishops Cannings differs from Battle, in having a window on 

 each side at the easternmost end of the clerestory over the respond. 

 To get these i{ respond " windows they were brought farther over 

 the arches than in the case of the " pier " windows, and the sill 

 splays kept natter. 



It is worthy of remark that the Churches of Bishops Cannings 

 and Battle have another unusual feature in common, though of later 

 date, viz., the means of access to the rood loft. The late Rev. 

 Mackenzie Walcott remarks, 1 after alluding to the not unusual 

 opening through the respond on to the loft : — w At Battle there is 

 an external stair-turret, having a bridge within the north nave aisle, 

 which communicates with a similar opening." A precisely similar 

 plan appears to have been adopted at Bishops Cannings. Subse- 

 quently to the re-building of the north aisle, 3 a staircase appears to 

 have been constructed outside the wall and in the angle formed by 

 the aisle and transept, the foundations of which I discovered by 

 excavating, as shown by the dotted lines at B» Fig. 1., Plate L 

 This was entered from the north aisle by a doorway, the sill of 



1 " Sacred Archaeology," p. 516. 

 2 This is shewn by the masonry on the outside having been so little disturbed 

 in its removal, and by the line of the roof above. 



