By 0. E. Pontine F.S.A. 



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into the aisles to resist the thrust of the eastern arch, and in order 

 to lessen the obstruction thus caused each of these is pierced by a 

 squint opening, and splayed off at the eastern angle. The arches 

 are of three orders of mouldings, the outer two carried down the 

 jambs and the inner one carried on shafts. The lower stage of the 

 tower is vaulted in stone with good foliated bosses at the inter- 

 sections. The three-light west window has the outside string 

 carried over it as a label, and beneath it is a door which must have 

 been introduced more as a conventional feature, or for ritual uses, 

 than as a public entrance, as it comes within 6ft. of the boundary 

 of the churchyard. There is a two-light window, with label, in 

 each face of the belfry, and a two-light one (without label) in the 

 south wall of the middle stage. In the east wall of the belfry near 

 the north-east angle is a small opening, evidently for the sanctus 

 bell, which probably superseded the earlier sanctus window in the 

 chancel, and marks of the gudgeon and a guide for the rope are 

 traceable. There is a good embattled parapet without pinnacles. 

 The stair turret is square on the outside and is carried to the top ; 

 it was formerly entered from the south aisle. This on the south 

 and the diagonal buttress on the north cut into the west walls of 

 the aisles, and the extent to which the latter were re-built to con- 

 struct them is clearly traceable. 



Following this came the almost entire re-building of the north 

 aisle, with one two-light and one three-light square-headed window, 

 and the insertion of two similar three-light windows in the south 

 aisle. There is no buttress to either, the re-built parts following 

 the older in this respect. At about the same time a clerestory was 

 added to the nave, with two two-light square-headed windows on 

 each side. 



The font is of doubtful date, and probably only the middle part 

 is old, but this has had a new surface given to it. There is a stoup 

 cut in the inside east jamb of the south doorway. There are traces 

 of colour decoration on the inside tower buttresses. In the tracery 

 of the easternmost window of the south aisle is a bit of fifteenth 

 century glass representing a chalice ; in that of the other side 

 window in this aisle is another piece representing a shield bearing 



