Visited ly the Society in 1889. 



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of the easternmost bay of the north aisle. There is a south porch 

 and a modern vestry between this and the transept. 



Although no Norman work is visible above ground (except, 

 perhaps, parts of the south transept wail), it is almost certain, from 

 the narrowness of the aisles, that the Church stands on Norman 

 foundations. I had been informed that there were Norman remains 

 in the tower, but I have failed to discover them. The nave, aisles J 

 transepts, and tower, appear to have been re-built circa 1430, the 

 chapels on the north and south of the chancel some fifty years after, 

 and that against the north aisle later still. The clerestory appears 

 to have been an afterthought, and traces of an earlier roof can be 

 seen on the west face of the tower, but the alteration must have 

 taken place before the Church was completed. 



The feature which strikes one at once inside the Church is the 

 way in which the buttresses of the aisles are carried over to support 

 the clerestory and at the same time to form arches to carry the 

 aisle roofs. Another special feature is the richly-groined porch 

 under the west window of the nave, the doorway of which has been 

 mutilated by the head being squared out. There is a stoup by the 

 south door. Stone bench seats are carried all round the Church 

 inside. 



The turret staircase to the tower also led to the rood-loft, the 

 exit doorway for which remains. The archways between the 

 transepts and chapels are of the panelled type of which we shall see 

 several examples during our excursion. There is a piscina in the 

 south transept, also a coeval recessed tomb. The two chapels have 

 their original roofs ; that on the north has lost its braces, but the 

 corbels which supported them still remain in the east angles and 

 over the arcade. There are niches in the east walls of both chapels ; 

 those in the south chapel with their rich canopies appear to be 

 entirely new, but they are presumably copied from original work. 



Thursday } August 1st. 



Church of S. Giles. Imbee. 

 This Church is one of the seven in the county dedicated in the 



