By C. E. Touting, Usq. 2o3 



buttresses to any part of the Church. In the centre of the south 

 bay of the porch there is on the inside of the east wall a beautiful 

 niche, which is shown on Plate II., Fig. 1. It consists of a recess 

 1 1 iin. wide, rectangular on plan, constructed apparently for a single 

 detached figure : the sides are panelled the full height, as also the 

 soffit and the part of the back above the figure. The head of the 

 niche is square and this was richly traceried, the tracery being 

 carried down to the level of the commencement of the back 

 panelling (over one-third of the full height), but much of it has 

 been destroyed. Every part of this niche, as well as the spandrels 

 of the arch spanning the porch, bears traces of the original colouring 

 in red, yellow, and blue. 



The priest's room over the porch is approached by a turret staircase 

 at the north-west angle. It retains the original doorway with ogee 

 head, and fireplace with carved paterae in the mouldings of the 

 jambs ; but the roof is modern, and its pitch has evidently been 

 lowered, the original level of it being shown by the weather-mould 

 on the chimney. The latter is coeval with the staircase, and has a 

 coping similarly embattled. The window shown in the view was 

 inserted at the recent restoration, and there is no evidence of what 

 existed previously. That this room was used for habitation appears 

 to be borne out by the curious sink-stone at the top of the stairs, 

 and just outside the priest's room door, with the spout carried 

 through the wall of the turret to the outside, as shown in the sketch. 



The north aisle. In the wall of the central bay is the doorway 

 previously referred to, now built up ; it is remarkable for the high 

 level at which it is placed, the sill being 3ft. above the floor (and 

 above those of the other two doorways), and the jambs not being 

 carried down on the outside shews that this was its original position, 

 though there is nothing in the fall of the ground or other local 

 circumstance, to suggest a reason for it. To the west of this, on 

 the inside, there is a niche of somewhat similar character to that at 

 the porch entrance, but smaller and plainer, the recess being only 

 9 Jin. wide, and the back and reveals plain : the soffit is ogee in 

 form, following the line of the arch in the tracery of the square 

 head, which is intact. Here, also, there are traces of colour, 



