By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 



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supported is ingenious and effective. As before observed, the 

 easternmost bays of the nave and aisles are narrow, about 6ft. 9in. 

 wide, and arches are carried across to screen them off, massive 

 buttresses being 1 erected on the outside of the aisle walls to resist 

 the thrust. The lantern is hexagon on plan, having flat sides on 

 the north and south, and angles towards the east and west, the latter 

 resting on the east wall of the nave and the arch thrown across as 

 before described. To receive the north and south sides (M. and N., 

 Plate III.) arches are thrown across at a high level between the 

 east and west walls of this bay. The lantern is entirely open to 

 the interior, and there is no indication of the use to which it was 

 applied, for I can discover no trace of bells, not even the sanctus 

 bell, having been hung in it. The general effect is very happy, 

 and the bays of the aisles thus separated from the body of the 

 Church form very perfect chapels, one of which, at least (the 

 south), is shewn by the coeval piscina in the south wall (Fig. 1, 

 Plate IV.) and the corbels remaining over the position of the altar 

 to have been designed for and used as a chantry. 



The nave originally had clerestory windows, the jambs of which 

 are discernible on the interior, but these appear to have been built 

 up when the present Post -Reformation roofs were put on the nave 

 and aisles. This roof of the nave is of flatter pitch than that of 

 the original, as indicated by the weather-mould on the lantern. 



Fifteenth century. The western tower is early fifteenth century 

 in date, having been commenced, as the inscription tells us, in 

 1435. The mouldings of this tower are of a bolder and earlier 

 type than those of Purton, but the proportions are very similar, 

 and the hollow-sided shaft forming the pedestal of the charming 

 niche over the west window, has exactly the same H feeling." Below 

 this niche the symbol of the patron saint, a St. Andrew's X, occurs 

 on each side of the west window, as shown in the view. To form 

 these the stone projects from the face of the wall about half-an-inch, 

 and, this, together with their plain form, has led to their being 

 mistaken for the iron X plates of tie-rods, inserted to brace the 

 tower. The angle buttresses are, like Purton, carried the full 

 height, but the pinnacles are set to the angle of the buttresses 



