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Notes on Churches visited in 1898. 



The aisle roofs are of seventeenth century date ; that on the south, 

 however, probably retains the steep pitch of the twelfth century 

 roof with the eaves coming so low that until the present century 

 there were no windows in the south wall — one has, however, been 

 inserted, as well as one in the west wall and another in the east 

 wall — the latter taking the place of an earlier one, of which traces 

 remain. The tie-beams of the north aisle are curiously curved, 

 with the object of bringing them over the nave arches. The walls 

 of the north aisle appear to have been partly re-built and altered, 

 but the modern doorway doubtless takes the place of the ancient 

 one, and there is a three-light square-headed Perpendicular 

 window remaining eastward of it; the other windows are 

 modern. 



The tower is so overgrown with ivy that its features are almost 

 hidden. It is of three stages in height and has a tiled pyramidal 

 roof ; there is a modern single-light window in each stage of the 

 west face — that in the west of the lower stage is contained within 

 a square opening of anterior date, and there are indications of the 

 jambs and tracery of an old window having been cut away to insert 

 it. In the upper stage there appears to be a single-light window 

 in each face. It is obvious from the drip-course on the east face 

 that the tower was erected before the Norman roof of the nave 

 gave way to the clerestory and flat roof ; it is probably a fourteenth 

 century one, but the indications are very vague. 



The south porch is a Perpendicular one of great depth with stone 

 benches, the outer doorway has a four-centred arch with traceried 

 spandrels, contained within a square label. The inner doorway is 

 the original Norman one of plain type — a semi-circular head 

 having label with billet-mould and square return terminals, a 

 simple chamfer is carried round jambs and arch and stopped near 

 the floor. 



It is worthy of note that, with the exception of the two to the 

 porch, there are no buttresses to the Church, and that there are no 

 parapets or copings, excepting the coping on the east gable of the 

 nave. 



The reading pew and pulpit are good Jacobean work ; the latter 



