By G. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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The porch has four-centred inner and outer doorways and diagonal 

 buttresses ; it also retains much of its original roof with barrel- 

 vaulted ceiling, the ribs having carved bosses at the intersections. 



The nave has a three-light very flat four-centred window eastward 

 of the porch and a two-light square-headed one westward, the 

 upper part of which has been renewed. In the south wall there 

 are similar windows entirely old. The nave has diagonal buttresses 

 at the eastern angles, the old walls of this and the porch which are 

 coeval) are faced with wrought stone and have a moulded plinth 

 carried round, but the modern work has rubble facing. The south 

 doorway is closed. 



In the north wall of the chancel is a three-light window, the 

 lights having elliptic heads without tracery ; the inner arches are 

 very slightly pointed. The window in the south wall is similar, 

 with the exception of a slight variation in the mouldings. 



In the east jamb of the porch doorway is a small square stone 

 with an inscription of incised characters in Norman French, which 

 runs as follows : — 



" >I< KY PATER NOSTER : E : AVE MARIA : PUR LE 

 ALME PUR FELEPPUR DE SALC EST jj>, CHRESTIENS DIRRA : QUARANTE : 

 JURS : DE PARDUN AVERA : AMEN " ; 



which is thus rendered by Canon Jackson : — " Whoever shall say 

 a Pater Noster and an Ave-Maria for the souls, for Philippa de 

 Salcest (?), and Christians, shall have 40 days of pardon." This 

 most interesting stone hardly seems to have had the attention it 

 deserves. 



Eastward of the porch is what looks like a seventeenth century 

 dole stone, the mensa moulded and the sides panelled, each panel 

 having scrolls pierced by the arms of a cross. 



The chalice and paten are dated 1579 ; a larger paten has the 

 hall marks of the Britannia standard of 1697 and the maker's 

 monogram " G.A.," which Mr. Nightingale states is that of Francis 

 Garthorne, maker of a communion service given by Queen Anne 

 to Trinity Church, U.S.A. 



