By 0. E. Pouting, F.8.A. 



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interesting to read in Canon Jackson's " Aubrey " that " the 

 Parish Church was used as a garrison by the Koyalists in 1644." 



The north chapel, sacristy and room over were evidently erected 

 as one work, the walls are ashlar-faced, and have moulded plinths 

 and plain parapets continued round level on the east ; the buttresses 

 are carried up through and terminate in crocketted pinnacles. The 

 chapel is of two bays, and has two three-light windows in the 

 north wall ; the sacristy and the room over were each originally 

 lighted by a two-light square-headed cusped window in the east 

 wall, but a modern window and door have been inserted in the 

 north wall of the former. The floor between the two stories of the 

 sacristy has been removed, and there is no constructional staircase 

 which gave access to the upper story. As a priest's room already 

 existed over the porch when this was built, and the latter contains 

 no fireplace, it seems more likely that it was for muniments, or 

 some such purpose, than for residence. 



The south chapel (known as the Warneford Chapel) is of the 

 same type of work, excepting that the parapet is pierced by trefoil 

 openings, the window in the west end is blocked by a monument. 

 There are two square-headed traceried niches flanking it. 



Between the chancel and each of the two chapels is an arcade of 

 two bays of four-centred arches of two orders of mouldings, the 

 outer being continued down the jambs and piers (in the case of the 

 latter this produces a very unusual effect), and the inner order 

 carried on attached shafts. There is a piscina in the south-east 

 respond of the north chapel. The north and south arcades are 

 slightly different, this being mainly due to a difference in the 

 thickness of the walls in which they occur. The arches opening 

 into the transepts are similar. 



The re-modelling of the north transept consisted in raising the 

 walls, adding a plain parapet and inserting a three-light window 

 in the end with reticulated tracery, but the south transept was 

 entirely re-built (except the small part of the east wall previously 

 referred to), a pierced parapet added, and at the same time continued 

 along over the porch. The window is a modern one <>{ similar 

 design to that in the north transept, but it is probably made up of 



