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the abacus rounded, a distinct advance in style, and the arches are 

 rather more pointed. 



The clerestory on both sides appears to have been erected on the 

 completion of the south arcade. 



Then, before reaching' the chancel, the builders seem to have 

 changed their original design, and decided to have a north transept, 

 so they prepared for it by re-constructing the easternmost bay on 

 that side in the later style then prevailing with a more pointed and 

 chamfered arch, but re-using the label-mould over. This arch and 

 respond (the latter with canted abacus) are coeval with the chancel 

 arch, which, however, has no label. If any proof is needed that 

 the north aisle was shortened to carry out the transept, and that 

 the latter was not originally intended, it may be found in the fact 

 that the clerestory window of that bay is blocked up by the roof 

 on the outside, and that the arch between aisle and transept cuts 

 into the arch of the arcade. 



The chancel was next proceeded with (before the erection of the 

 transept), and the four lancet windows, the piscina, and the string 

 course remain of the original features of about 1220 — as also the 

 corbel table of the eaves on the north side. The present doorway 

 is a late fourteenth century insertion, and has the carved paterae of 

 that period, but it probably supplanted an earlier doorway, as the 

 string appears to have been returned over it. The north and east 

 sides of the chancel are new work, and Canon Baynham informs me 

 • that a priest's door on the north side was done away with in erecting 

 it. This work appears, however, to be a good copy of the 

 ; original, 



The north transept appears to have been next built, and indicates 

 the dawn of tracery in the north window. The single lancet in the 

 west wall is coeval, whilst that in the east wall is a later insertion. 

 ( There were, of course, north and south aisles at that time, but 

 the present windows are modern, and it is questionable whether 

 much of the old walls remains. 



The Church was not, so far as can be seen, considered complete 

 [until this stage had been reached, its erection having thus occupied 

 nearly a century ; and this may be taken as a typical, though 



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