By C. E. Ponting, F.8.A. 



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each side in the fifteenth century, when the projecting staircase to 

 the rood-loft with diagonal buttress was erected on the north. It 

 will be noticed that the string-course on the north stops at the 

 buttress, but was re-set on the south. One of the buttresses on the 

 north has been removed, and a modern window put in its place. 

 There is a good doorway on the north, of the period I refer to, 

 with semi-circular arch and a lancet window eastward of it. There 

 is a lancet in the corresponding position on the south, but with 

 very remarkable label terminals. One of the buttresses here is 

 partially hidden by the porch, and another has a thirteenth century 

 coffin slab let into it. It is interesting to note that the lines of 

 the plinth and string-courses slope downwards towards the east, 

 following the natural fall of the site. 



The porch appears to have been built in the fourteenth century, 

 and it has a very curious niche in its east wall, with square head 

 without cusping and a square pedestal for the figure, with a panel 

 of "Flowing" type beneath — all much scraped, and probably 

 partly renewed. 



The chancel is a Perpendicular one of circa 1450, with two two- 

 light square-headed windows with label and head-terminals on the 

 north, and the same on the south, with the addition of a small 

 priest's door, which looks like a thirteenth century one re-built. 

 The east window is a three-light pointed one of coeval date, placed 

 at an unusually high level (this has doubtless been raised) , and 

 there are two good diagonal buttresses. 



The tower is a good solid-looking one of about 1430, of three 

 stages in height, divided by string-courses, with diagonal buttresses 

 stopping near the top of the middle stage. In each face of the 

 belfry stage is a double, simple pointed, window (which might be 

 of the thirteenth century) ; in the west face of the lower stage is a 

 good three-light window with head-terminals and a good doorway 

 under — a four-centred arch contained within a square label and 

 the spandrels traceried. The parapet of the tower is embattled and 

 has carved gargoyles at the angles, but no pinnacles, and thero is 

 a good moulded plinth. 



The archway opening into the nave is coeval with the tower. 



