By Mr. Edward Kite. 



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were, into gigantic panels. At the gable end of the building they 

 terminate with a set- off. The small window in the north wall 1 

 (see engraving) retains both its 

 moulded archway ornamented with 

 the " chevron," and jamb-shafts, 

 but is not, externally, of the 

 original depth, having been at 

 some time considerably lowered, 

 as will be seen by a comparison 

 of it with those (now blocked up) 

 at the ends of the transepts. In 

 the east wall there was previously 

 to the year 1844 (when this 

 portion of the fabric, as well as 

 the chapels attached to it, under- 

 went a eomplete restoration) a 

 window of three lights in the 

 Perpendicular style. This had 

 been substituted for the original one, in order to correspond with 

 the greater portion of the other windows in the building. At the 

 period above-mentioned it was removed ; the pilasters, which had 

 been cut away in order to admit of its insertion, restored, and the 

 present window, copied from that in the north wall, introduced : it 

 is however defective, owing to the variation from the original depth 

 above described. 



The roof is of the original pitch, and covered with stone tile. 



This portion of the building is divided internally into two com- 

 partments by a plain semicircular arch springing on either side 

 from two shafts with richly carved capitals. 2 The roof is composed 



WINDOW IN NORTH WALL. ST. JOHN'S. 



1 In the wall beneath, this window is a doorway with a small square aperture 

 on its eastern side. Both are now blocked up. The former seems to have con- 

 nected the chancel with a small apartment once attached to the exterior, perhaps 

 occupied by the Sacristan ; the latter may have been used for the purpose of 

 watching from this apartment the lights kept burning at certain times within 

 the church. 



2 These are engraved in Britton's "Architectural Antiquities." 



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