Visited by the Society in 1889. 



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an expedient, and put in the corbel by the side of the window, 

 twisting- the grotesque round and across it sufficiently far to catch 

 the bottom of the brace, altogether ignoring the fact that by such 

 means its practical value is lost. 



The north porch formerly had a room over it, with a turret 

 staircase for access, the upper and lower doors of which remain. 

 The floor has been removed and the roof (which is the original one) 

 brought down below the top of the doorway. This was probably a 

 watching chamber, and the opening through the aisle wall can be 

 traced. On the outside there is also evidence of the lowering of 

 the walls and roof, but the niche in the gable has not been disturbed 



In the chancel there are two recessed altar tombs in the north 

 wall, which were originally flush with the face of it, there being a 

 projection on the outside to admit of the depth of the recess ; the 

 easternmost one appears to have been converted into a canopied 

 tomb at a later date, but the sides of the added portion look as 

 though they were not worked for their present position. This 

 contains two figures, supposed to represent John and Margaret de 

 Ereleigh, 1380 — 1400. The other has a single female figure, put 

 at 1360 — 1370, probably one of their daughters. The brass in the 

 floor commemorates John St. Maur and his wife Elizabeth, 1485. 

 There are two sedilia and a piscina with shelf in the south wall of 

 the sanctuary. The roof and east window are modern. The re- 

 mains of the Norman chancel, to which I referred, are distinctly 

 traceable in the herring-bone masonry near the floor and part of a 

 window over it, cut into when the archway into the chapel was 

 formed. 



The chapel on the south side of the chancel appears to have been 

 added late in the fifteenth century, and part of an earlier buttress 

 weathering is seen in the angle. It is chiefly remarkable for the 

 large extent of window surface, the east window being of four lights 

 and the south window of six lights. There is a rude niche, formed 

 of rough masonry, also the remains of an aumbry, in the east wall 

 and a doorway exists in the south wall ; the roof is a poor one of 

 the seventeeth century. The brass in the floor is to John and Edith 

 Compton, the former of whom died in 1515, and might have been 



