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



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south arcades, it being fully developed Early English of about 

 1220. The arch is a pointed one of two orders, one square and 

 the other chamfered, with chamfered label : the inner order is 

 carried down the jambs and the outer stopped at the springing on 

 small detached angle shafts on the west face with characteristic 

 conventional carving and moulded bases ; the abacus mould of the 

 capital is carried round the jambs as an impost. The jambs lean 

 outwards at the top, but this has no symbolism — it is due to the 

 yielding of the foundations. This is the only feature of the period 

 in the Church. 



The chancel appears to have been re-built in the last quarter of 

 the fourteenth century (the east end, with its window, is modern), 

 and the three two-light windows in the side walls are of this work : 

 the easternmost of the two south windows has its outer sill higher 

 than the rest, and the inner sill carried down for credence with a 

 plain pointed piscina eastward of it. These windows have been 

 re-faced and have a modern look. There is a priest's door of the 

 same period in the south wall. 



Reverting to the nave — the roll-mould string-courses over the 

 arcades point to there having been a considerable height of wall 

 above them, if not clerestory windows, in the twelfth century. 

 This appears to have been re-built in the fifteenth century — the 

 south clerestory has three windows and the north clerestory a central 

 one only, all of three lights and with square heads. There is a 

 bold and deep weather-mould over the aisle roofs at the level of 

 about a foot above the point at which the fifteenth century re-building 

 commenced. The distinction between the masonry of these two 

 periods is very marked at the west end of the north side, and the 

 very steep pitch of the earlier nave roof is indicated by the weather- 

 mould on the east face of the tower — extending to within 2ft. of 

 the top of the tower. The present oak roof of the nave is the same 

 which was put on in the latter half of the fifteenth century, when 

 the clerestory was added: it has the wall-plates, principals, inter- 

 mediates, purlins, and ridges all richly moulded ; tho trusses have 

 small wall-shafts bearing on corbels, and carved spandrels — three with 

 heads, two with a cross on a shield, and ono with ii S. Andrew'* OTOS0. 



