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The walls of the chancel are mainly of the earliest pointed period 

 — so early that we may call it Transitional Norman — but the present 

 fine proportions of this part of the Church are in a measure due 

 to a subsequent raising of the walls ; the line of the early roof can 

 be seen on the east wall of the north chapel where a part of the 

 weather-mould which protected the overhanging eaves (there could 

 have been no parapet) remains, and the corbel table of distinctly 

 Norman type shows in the room over the sacristy on the north 

 side. There is a low flat pilaster buttress overlapping the south- 

 east angle, the corresponding one at the north-east was probably 

 removed when the sacristy was built. One of the original windows 

 — a single lancet with wide inner splay carried round the arch 

 (always an early feature)— exists on the north of the sanctuary, 

 and slightly westward of it, in an unusual position, is a trefoil- 

 arched piscina, which looks as though it once had a wooden shelf. 

 A similar piscina exists in the usual place on the south of the 

 sanctuary, near the east end ; both have new stones in place of 

 their bowls. A roll-mould string-course is carried round the 

 inside of the parts of the walls which have not been interfered 

 with by subsequent alterations ; the east window and that on the 

 south of the sanctuary and the roof are modern, and the former 

 can scarcely be said to enhanoe the beauty of the chancel. 



The walls of the north transept are coeval with those of the 

 chancel, although they were raised in the later re-modelling, when 

 the north-east buttress was removed — the original buttress similar 

 to that of the chancel remains at the north-west angle. A small 

 portion of the old masonry remains in the east wall of the south 

 transept, but this underwent a more extensive re-building than the 

 north. 



There was, therefore, a cruciform Church here in the twelfth 

 century, the east, north, and south arms of which extended to the 

 limits of the present building, and it is reasonable to suppose that 

 it had a central tower, but all this, with the inside arches and other 

 work of that period, has been swept away. 



Next in order of date comes the porch, which is a large one of 

 the fourteenth century (when it was doubtless erected against the 



