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Notes on the Churches 



roof is here intact with the exception of the loss of its terminals, 

 so that we can clearly see what the chancel was formerly — the stone 

 ribs overlap laterally to cover the joints. The ceiling* is a barrel- 

 vault of stone with cusped ribs ; the outer doorway has a square 

 head, with niche over, and is flanked by pinnacles — the peculiar 

 design of the gable cross is deserving of notice. The inner doorway 

 is coeval with the aisle, and is remarkable for an unusually late 

 example of the dog-tooth ornament, used in the same group of 

 mouldings with the twig ornament before mentioned. The label 

 mould is a very bold and good one, and the cornice along the 

 springing o£ the porch vault is carried up over the doorway. 



The nave arcades and clerestory are a little later than the aisle, 

 and the arch across the south aisle which abuts against the arcade 

 (but does not intersect with it) looks earlier than the arcade itself. 

 An arch of a plainer description is carried in a similar way across 

 the north aisle. This aisle is of fifteenth century date and has one 

 original window and one new one The roof is a good specimen of 

 Jacobean oak-work with billet mould and pendants, and bears the 

 date 1631. 



In the eastern responds of the nave arcades are two openings — 

 on the north side a doorway, and on the south a squint, but both 

 have been so disguised by modern plaster-work that it is difficult 

 to identify their original form. 



The south transept was probably a chantry, for it has a piscina 

 coeval with its erection, although this has also been disguised by the 

 modern plasterer. The windows of this transept have inside detached 

 shafts and arches, and there was probably a canopied niche of their 

 full height between the two in the east wall, for its corbel remains, 

 and the side mouldings are continued down. The roof of this 

 transept bears the date 1787. 



The tower was built in the latter half of the fifteenth century ; 

 the west window is of a somewhat unusual type, and the doorway 

 under retains its original oak door and iron- work. There is a 

 pretty niche on the outside by the side of this doorway, with an ogee 

 arch, the tracery of which has been mutilated. The stair turret is 

 square on plan and terminates at the belfry level. 



