By C. H. Talbot. 



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has, on the west face, a small circular window-opening, included in 

 a square, and, immediately under it, has come to light, by the 

 , removal of the modern clock face, a very remarkable stone clock 

 dial, with twelve sunk panels, like a wheel. This dial and the 

 window appear to be of the same date, in the seventeenth century. 

 Higher up comes another string-course, similar to the former one, 

 and ranging with the ridge of the roof of the nave. Up to this 

 point the re-building was continuous, but the tower has been raised 

 again, later, a few feet, finished with battlements and angle 

 pinnacles, and a spire erected. The belfry windows are of two 

 lights, and for their insertion the string-course, last mentioned, has 

 been cut through, and then finished off with a return. Under the 

 cills of these windows, on all four sides of the tower, are the blooked- 

 up remains of other windows, narrower externally but more widely 

 splayed internally. That on the east side is only to be detected 

 | from the inside of the belfry, and as it would, if remaining in its 

 | original condition, open into the Church, under the nave roof, that 

 seems to show that the present roof of the nave is really later, 

 j though at first sight it might be supposed earlier. The belfry 

 window, on the east side, is, to a great extent, blocked by the nave 

 ! roof, and must, I think, have been so from the first. It would 

 j appear that it was, at one time, intended to raise the tower, by ons 

 clear stage, above the nave roof. For some reason the intention 

 was abandoned, and the belfry stage lowered down. The present 

 tower and spire are too low for effect. Internally, the jambs of the 

 tower arch appear to be of the fourteenth century. The arch itself 

 has, apparently, been re-constructed. It is rude and of little interest. 

 There is no proper junction between the arch and jambs. Probably 

 the jambs were built up, to meet the arch, but, at that point, a 

 ' gallery has been erected and removed, so that the evidence is 

 obliterated. Externally, the south clerestory of the nave, where it 

 j adjoins the tower, appears to be built against the latter. A buttress, 

 : adjoining the 'tower and abutting the south nave arcade, to which 

 \ it belongs, has a shallow recess, on its south face, which has often 

 1 given rise to enquiry. I supposo there must have been, when it 

 was erected, a small Norman or Early English window, in tho west 

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