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with it ; it is more simple in form and detail than either of the 

 other instances I have cited. It has an octagonal stone spire, 

 supported at the cardinal sides by four unmoulded stone piers about 

 16in. x 7in., which terminate abruptly at their upper ends under 

 the lower edge of the spire, without any intervening caps, and rest 

 at their lower ends on the wall on the north and south and on 

 corbelling from the wall on east and west. The spire has a 

 slightly-thickening drip-mould at the lower edge, but the bed- joint 

 is level. There is no bell, but marks of the gudgeons can be seen. 



The weather-mould on the part of the wall which is carried up 

 to form the base of the turret shows the coeval roof to have been 

 higher at the ridge than the present one, and steeper in pitch, and 

 it doubtless existed when the west tower was built, for similar 

 evidence is afforded by the weather-mould there. 



We now come to what is the most interesting part of the Church 

 - — the north chapel. I am not in possession of any record of its 

 founder, nor is there any distinguishing memorial of him in the 

 chapel, but he was evidently a man of original ideas, for the way 

 in which the crypt is arranged, the peculiar character of the window- 

 tracery, and the charming piscina, are very unconventional. The 

 original floor of this chapel was (judging by the piscina) about 2ft. 

 above the level of the present one, and it is much to be regretted 

 that it has been lowered for the purpose of making a more con- 

 venient organ-chamber. The crypt has been filled up and and a 

 modern archway formed between the chapel and chancel, and there 

 is no evidence of how the old floor was carried, or what was the 

 original communication (if any) between the chapel and the rest 

 of the Church. 



The chapel is of late Decorated work — it has a three-light pointed 

 window in the north wall, the tracery of which is an interesting 

 mixture : it is generally of the pattern known as " reticulated," 

 but the central opening at the apex is a circle with (on the inside 

 only) four very curious cusps. 1 In the east wall is a two-light 

 square-headed window of the same date, with reticulated tracery 



1 The cusps have been cut away on the outside, probably to simplify glazing. 



