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A Description of the Saxon Work in the 



convey the same discharged of all demands, payments, & Incumbrances, as amply 

 as by the said Acts or either of them it is enacted or provided in that behalf. In 

 witness whereof the said parties to these indentures interchangeably have set 

 their seals : given the day & year first above written. 



Tho: Noel Eowilson Owen Rowe Daniel Taylor 



Marke Hildestry Will Rolfe George Langham William Wibeed " 



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By C. E. Ponting, Esq., 



(Diocesan Surveyor and Architect.) 



P^EATURES of unusual interest having been brought to light 

 g during the recent restoration of this Church, I venture 

 to place on record a brief description of them, with some 

 notes concerning the circumstances which led to their discovery* 

 In order to render this description more intelligible I illustrate it 

 by sketches of parts of the building as it now exists, and of the 

 various features referred to. 



I am unable to give an account of the earliest stage of the res- 

 toration of this most interesting Church, which was commenced in 

 1 877 and carried on until 1881 under a well-known London architect, 

 for when, in July 188£, I was called in by the Vicar and church- 

 wardens, the restoration of the chancel, south aisle, porch, and the 

 clerestory of the nave had been completed, and I was requested to 

 undertake that of the remainder of the nave, north aisle and tower ; 

 but it is necessary, in order to complete the chain of evidence as to 

 the Saxon Church, that I should refer to one or two points in the 

 works previously done. 



During their execution two round-headed windows— one on each 

 side in the western responds of the nave arcade — were opened out, 

 the sill of that on the north side being 8ft. 11 in. and that on the 

 south side 9ft. 8in. above the present floor-level. 



These windows have rebates for shutters flush with the exterior 



