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the elevation, it appears that the outer sills of the windows of these 

 two bays are on this side, kept higher — the splays being flatter to 

 admit of it, and that the string course which is carried all round the 

 chancel and transepts elsewhere becomes here a mere weather-mould 

 over the roof of this adjunct, as well as being at a higher level. 

 The westernmost window is also some four or five inches higher 

 altogether, a break being made in the upper string forming the 

 label. Then the plinth which elsewhere was carried round the 

 chancel and transepts, never existed here at all, and only occurs on 

 the face of the intervening buttress and for some six inches on the 

 return. There is a built-up window in the buttress at the west-end 

 of the chamber, and an archway for passage through the intervening 

 one also blocked up. The three buttresses have had their south 

 faces re-built, and probably set back, so that their present projection 

 does not represent the width of the chamber, but it was evidently 

 not much in excess of this — hence apparently the splaying off of 

 this door jamb. 



When I had got thus far in my investigations, I looked for some 

 indication of other openings in the chancel wall, and on critically 

 examining the jointing I found that there are two built-up squints 

 or windows (with a mullion between) which once looked into the 

 sanctuary. The monument of Sir W. Lewys effectually prevents 

 an examination of these features on the inside, but from the fact 

 that the string course under the windows stops, at about two feet 

 from the last window, against what is apparently the remains of a 

 pinnacle, similar in section to those flanking the niches, I conjecture 

 that there was a group of features under this window, which 

 probably included sedilia and piscina, and of which these openings 

 formed part, as at Dorchester, Oxon. [A portion of the sedilia has 

 since been opened out — each compartment has a circular back and 

 groined ceiling, and traces of a canopy similar to that over the 

 doorway near it.] There are also two larger openings divided by a 

 mullion, but these were probably only recesses, or aumbries, as there 

 is no sign of them on the inside. The object of this passage-like 

 chamber opens the field for much conjecture. It must have been 

 too narrow for a sacristy, and I do not incline to the Leper theory, 



