By C. E. Panting, F.S.A. 



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having the unusual peculiarity of the piercings being carried back 

 to the outside of the external splay of the jambs. Southward of 

 this on the inside is a corbel cleverly carved to represent a monkey 

 in a reclining attitude with the right leg resting on the knee of 

 the left, and the left arm supporting the head of a bearded man — 

 the animal is wearing a kind of mitre. The piscina below this has 

 a curiously-cusped arch and rich filleted-roll moulding, and it 

 might easily be taken as being earlier than the windows, but it is 

 probably a survival of earlier details often found in Transitional 

 work. High up in the west wall is a small two-light window, each 

 light being only about 20in. high and 4in. wide, and rebated on 

 the outside. 



The crypt below this was approached from the outside by a 

 semi-circular-headed door in the east wall, about 2ft. from that of 

 the chancel, and lighted by a two-light window in the west wall, 

 somewhat similar to the one in the chapel over it, but cusped ; and 

 by a double piercing 2in. wide in a stone 15in. x 12in. in the 

 north wall. 



The tower arch, which is of fourteenth century type, having one 

 order of a large quarter-round mould and another of the cavetto, 

 carried down to the floor without stops, would seem to point to an 

 earlier tower than the present having existed here. The present 

 tower is a Perpendicular one of two stages, with diagonal buttresses 

 terminating just above the dividing string-course. There is a 

 second string-course between the west doorway and the window, 

 and this is continued at the sides — an unusual arrangement. The 

 west window is a three-light one, with pronounced " Perpendicular " 

 tracery, and there is a two-light square-headed window in each face 

 of the belfry stage. The tower has a deep plinth of ashlar work 

 and an embattled parapet without pinnacles. There is no staircase. 

 The hole in the floor over the lower stage, for the admission of bells, 

 is curiously formed of curved timbers. The slab of a fine brass 

 which lies outside the west door deserves a better position ; the brass 

 has disappeared, but it evidently represented a mail-clad knight 

 flanked with pinnacles and surmounted by a canopy. 



The addition of the north aisle was carried out in the fifteenth 



