By C. K Pouting, F.S.A. 



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modern chapel on the north of the latter. The walls of the nave 

 are (with the exception of the part re -built for the stairs to the 

 rood-loft) Norman work of rather late in the period. The original 

 doorways remain on north and south ; the latter is a fine specimen, 

 the opening has a segmental head within a semi-circular arch, the 

 tympanum being ornamented by foliage in relief, the stems having 

 the pellet ornament. The arch has the unusual rectangular mould, 

 and the saw-tooth on the label. The arch* is supported by jamb 

 shafts ; these have been largely renewed as well as the impost 

 mould but the caps are original. The door has good ironwork. 

 The west window of the nave is an early fifteenth century one of 

 two lights; the stone turret over was erected in 1879, taking the 

 place of an old one of wood, and is supposed to be a copy of the 

 one at Biddestone. There is a three-light square-headed Perpen- 

 dicular window in the north wall, and a coeval one of two lights 

 in the wall opposite — the latter has a niche in its east jamb. 

 Eastward of this is the entrance to the rood-loft, the stairs of 

 which have been cut into by a seventeenth century window of two 

 lights, intended, probably, to light the pulpit. 



The chancel was re-built in 1879, when its width was increased 

 to that of the nave ; the diagonal buttress at the south-east angle 

 of the latter shows that the old chancel was narrower: this 

 buttress was built with the rood stairs and has the same moulded 

 base and plinth. Previous to 1879 a chancel arch existed, and 

 there was a break in the line of the roof at this point. 



The east window, the font, and the roofs are all modern. 



The walls of the porch are old, but the outer doorway and gable 

 over it have been renewed. 



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