By Mr. Edward Kite. 



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intervening space being filled with chalk rubble. It was originally 

 lighted by five small semicircular-headed windows, resting exter- 

 nally on a plain string-course which ran round the walls between 

 the pilasters. The latter are of considerable breadth, and, owing 

 to the thickness of the walls, of little projection. The corbel-table 

 remains on the north and south walls in a perfect state. In the 

 sixteenth century (or perhaps later) the small windows above de- 

 scribed, appear to have been replaced by the present Perpendicular 

 ones of three lights. The insertion of these had, no doubt, the 

 effect of weakening the walls; that on the south side being, from 

 the pressure of the stone vaulting, thrust out of the perpendicular. 

 A semicircular-headed doorway may be traced in the north wall, 

 but another of much later date, on the south side, is now in use. 

 The roof is of a good pitch, and is covered with stone tile. 



This part of the church inside resembles that of St. John, the 

 central arch, however, which divides the vaulting, is worked into 

 two rolls corresponding with the shafts, on either side, from which 

 it springs. The arcade also differs in two respects — viz., the shafts 

 being clustered, or triple, instead of single, and an additional 

 chevron moulding, set with the points jutting out from the wall, 

 being introduced in the arches. These variations seem to show 

 that this church was erected at rather a later date than St. John's. 

 The arcade on the east wall was carefully restored, and the present 

 window, in the Norman style, inserted above it, in the year 1852. 



The chancel-arch is of the Perpendicular style, without shafts 

 or capitals, and being cut through the Norman wall, is of consider- 

 able thickness ; the western face is chamfered and ornamented with 

 panelling. 



THE NAVE 



is sixty-eight feet in length, and twenty- three-and-a-half in width. 

 It is divided from the aisles on either side by a series of five pointed 

 arches springing from four octagonal piers, and two responds. The 

 clerestory above is lighted by the same number of windows, each 

 of three cinquefoil-headed lights, the monials of which continue 

 to the arch of the window in perpendicular lines, and above the 



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