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



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or nice flowing carving. The belfry stage stands clear above the 

 roofs, and has a two-light window in each face of a more simple 

 and rather later type than those of the transept, and chamfered 

 labels with square returns. The cornice has numerous outlets for 

 water, and is surmounted by a high and rather weak-looking pierced 

 parapet without pinnacles. The Norman tower must have been of 

 nearly the same size from east to west as the present one, as the 

 thirteenth century chancel, which was built against it, supports the 

 buttresses of the fourteenth century tower. (The turret-staircase 

 giving access to the belfry is modern, as also is the vestry.) > 



During the latter half of the fourteenth century the north and 

 south aisles and the west front were re-built (and the latter was 

 again almost entirely re-built in 1854, when a new doorway was 

 put in place of a smaller old one, and the west window was reduced 

 in height and a new window inserted in the end of the north aisle.) 

 The w r est window of the nave has tracery of the reticulated type, 

 and that of the south aisle is a three-light square-headed one with 

 the cusping cut out of the head in a peculiar manner. There are 

 three similar windows in the south wall. A large thirteenth century 

 cross, built into the west wall, was found in re-building the but- 

 tresses here. An old engraving shows a small door in the west end 

 of the north aisle and a quatref oil window over, both of which have 

 been removed. The north aisle has no buttress except at the angle, 

 and there are four two-light pointed windows of Transitional type 

 on the north side. The south aisle has three buttresses, one of 

 which bears this inscription slightly incised on the face : — - 



II EA 

 EA II 

 1684 

 R.A. 



When the tower and transepts were built the nave retained its 

 high-pitched roof, the drip-mould of which can be seen on the 

 transept walls ; a clerestory with three square-headed windows on 

 each side was added to the nave in the fifteenth century, and the 

 walls were built against the earlier tower buttresses. The engraving 

 before referred to shows the nave with the low-pitched roof of this 

 period. All the roofs in the Church date from 1854, and we now 



