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



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The oldest part is the south arcade of the nave, which may be 

 put at about the end of the twelfth century. The columns are 

 cylindrical (the responds being demi-columns) , all with circular 

 abacus and base moulds of advanced section and stiff foliated carving. 

 The arches are of two orders of chamfers with labels — probably the 

 Church of this period had no north aisle as there is no trace of early 

 work on that side. Next in date comes the south doorway, which 

 formed part of the original Church, but was replaced here when the 

 aisle was re-built. The mouldings of jamb and label are definitely 

 Early English. 



Coeval with this (circa 1220) was the erection of the chancel, and 

 the south-east quoin, with its flat buttresses, remains of the early 

 work of this part. The chancel arch is also probably of this date — 

 it has plain splayed jambs with a sinking in the splays of the arch 

 making two orders — no label or impost. Much of this chancel 

 appears to have been re-built in the fourteenth century, when the 

 diagonal buttress at the north-east angle and an intermediate one 

 on the north wall were added, and the tall three-light east window 

 and the two-light north window inserted (these have had their 

 tracery renewed, and much of the adjacent walls has again been 

 re-built in recent times — 1873). In the south wall of the chancel 

 are two sedilia recesses with the seats 3ft. above the present sanctuary 

 floor, and a small piscina eastwards of them 1ft. higher (there is 

 no drain, this part has probably been renewed). From this and 

 from the height of the window sills I conclude that there was a 

 considerable raising of the floor at the east end, which is unusual 

 II where, as in this case, the ground outside slopes in the contrary 

 , direction. A fifteenth century priest's door was inserted in the 

 1 1 south wall between the buttress and the chapel, but the sill of this 

 If seems to fit the present floor-level of that part of the chancel. 

 I The north arcade of the nave is of two periods of work, both of 

 j the fourteenth century. This aisle, when first added (circa 1330) 

 f appears to have been of two bays in length only, with deep eastern 

 respond, although the south aisle then existing extended the full 

 ' length of the nave, but some fifty or sixty years afterwards it was 

 ! extended one bay westwards, the dcmi-coluum on the west respond 



