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Notes on the Churches 



The nave arcades are well designed and the archway into the 

 chapel is similar to them ; the capitals of both are surmounted by 

 a pretty, carved cresting". The roof and the inner arches of the 

 clerestory windows are modern. The stairs to the rood loft have 

 been removed, but the doorways remain, and a puzzling appearance 

 is given to the upper one by building a piece of the window tracery 

 across it. For some reason nearly all the original window tracery 

 of this Church has been taken out, and a stack of it, covered with 

 ivy, exists in the churchyard : I presume the new work which takes 

 its place has been copied from the old. A piscina in the north aisle 

 indicates the existence of an altar in front of the archway opening 

 into the chapel, and there is a squint looking into the chancel, but 

 not towards the high altar — the same may be said of the one on the 

 south side. There was an altar also in the south aisle, the piscina 

 of which remains, and there is a recessed altar-tomb in the south 

 wall coeval with the Church. There are the remains of, apparently, 

 a stoup built in here. A piece of fresco, with a kneeling female 

 figure (probably representing the Annunciation) has been carefully 

 preserved on the south wall, and there is a pretty little niche with 

 colour near it remaining in situ further westward. Both aisles 

 retain their original roofs of trussed-rafter form, but it will be 

 observed that the windows of the south are richer than those of the 

 north ; those at the east and west ends have pointed heads, and the 

 tracery of the square- headed side windows is more varied. At the 

 west end are the remains of a doorway which, probably, previously 

 led to a staircase for access to the roof, which was closed by the 

 addition of the tower. 



The archway into the tower is of the same panelled kind as those 

 we saw at North Bradley, and the lower stage is vaulted in stone. 

 The staircase doorway is unusually good. 



The chancel has been much altered, and the two-bay arcade 

 between it and the chapel is apparently new. The piscina and one 

 window in the south wall are original work, but the other and the 

 east window are new. 



The side windows of the chapel have been less interfered with 

 than any others in the Church, but the east window here also is new. 



