By C. E. Pont in f/, F.S.A. 



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also are the inner arches, the splay dying on to the jambs ; the 

 outer jambs and arch have the quarter-round mould in addition. 



The inner doorway of the porch has two orders of mouldings on 

 arch and jambs, without label, and typical stops — which are, 

 however, almost hidden by the raising of the floor. The outer 

 doorway has somewhat similar mouldings and stops, but the greater 

 part of the porch has been re-built (as mentioned later) , the window 

 to the priests' chamber over disappearing in the process, leaving 

 only the quatref oil opening (which has never been glazed) , which 

 gave a view into the aisle. Parts of the arch of a two-light window 

 now form the head of the upper doorway. 



The work to this aisle is of Doulting stone. 



The present roof was put on at the restoration of 1856. The old 

 oak benches on stone bases are preserved. 



The next step in the development of the building was taken 

 on the north side. In 1393 Richard II. made a grant of land for 

 the further endowment of the north chapel, shortly before which 

 time (circa 1380) the north and east walls were re-built, making it 

 practically equal in width to the south chapel, and of the full length 

 of the chancel — it thus projected beyond the north aisle as the 

 Bettesthorne Chapel formerly did on the south, and had similar 

 diagonal buttresses at the outer (north-west and north-east) angles : 

 it was, however, carried above the contemporary chancel, and had 

 a span roof, in lieu of the (probable) lean-to form of the previous 

 small chapel. Here, as in the south chapel, the transition to the 

 Perpendicular is much more marked in the east window than in the 

 side ones. This window is a five-light pointed one, and if judged 

 by its tracery might be taken to be later, but the mouldings — the 

 wave-mould, splay, and cavetto on the outside arch and jambs and 

 the two latter inside and on the mullions and tracery — show it to be 

 of the period now under review. It has the same outside label re- 

 turning square into the wall, as on the side windows, and iuside arch 

 with wave mould dying on to the jambs. The chapel is divided into 

 three bays in length, the divisions being marked by buttresses on 

 the outside ; and a splayed plinth is carried round the diagonal 

 buttress and along the east side (it is also continued later along the 



