8 Notes on the Church of St. Mary 



but I should be glad if any persons reading this would give me their 

 views upon this interesting point. 



Another remnant of twelfth century work was discovered in the 

 south wall of the sacrarium (at J» Fig. 1. Plate I.), and is shewn by 

 Fig. 4, Plate II. This consists of a low-side window, the opening 

 of which, though built up outside, can be seen; it is about 16in. 

 wide/and the inside is widened out as shewn. The eastern jamb is 

 splayed to command a view of the high altar from the outside, 

 whilst the other side is square. Amongst the rubbish which filled 

 this window was a piece of a chamfered course, 5in. thick, apparently 

 part of a seat. The depth exactly corresponded with the distance 

 between the upper bed joint of the top course of the inside sill of 

 the window recess as carried down and the stop of the chamfer on 

 the jamb ; this appeared to suggest its position where I have placed 

 it (K, Fig. 4, Plate II.), and its use as a seat or ledge. Near to it, 

 also used as "filling," was a stone resembling the larger portion of 

 a corbelled piscina, apparently coeval in date; the un worked part 

 of this, which had been built into the wall, corresponded in depth 

 with the inner sill of the window proper, and, as this was near to 

 where it was found, I fixed it there, but this must not be held to 

 imply my belief in that being its original position. The low window 

 was cut into in the fourteenth century by the insertion of the win- 

 dow above it, and by the introduction of the weak-looking sedilia, 

 even if it had not been destroyed in erecting the rich thirteenth 

 century arcade, part of which exists as a piscina, and which— as 

 traces of it are to be seen west of the window— doubtless extended 

 to that point as sedilia. In connexion with this may be noticed the 

 curious feature of a portion of the wall at this point— as high as 

 the low window exists— not being parallel with the rest on the 

 outside; this and the low window are evidently parts of the earlier 

 chancel. The floor of the chancel had been raised in 1858 when a 

 new tile pavement was laid : the previous level has now been restored. 

 In doing this a step was found at the entrance of the chancel, llin. 

 below the present pavement, shewing that the entire floor of the 

 Church has been raised. 



A singular, and, as far as my experience goes, an unparalleled 



