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the chancel in the fourteenth century, but no other alteration appears 

 to have been made in the walls which stand as firm and solid as 

 when first erected. 



On the north side of the chancel, in the straight part of the wall, 

 is a recess or credence with semicircular head, and on the opposite 

 side a similar opening for an aumbry, with rebate and marks of 

 hooks for a pair of doors. Both of these recesses have semicircular 

 arches, they are 1ft. 9in. wide, 1ft. lOin. deep, and 12in. high to 

 the springing. 



The chancel arch is deserving of especial notice : it consists of 

 plain jambs and semicircular arch of square section, with an impost 

 7in. thick worked with an early moulding which is carried to the 

 side wall of the nave on each side. On the east face, the arch 

 consists of two plain rings of thin stones, but on the west face 

 these voussoirs are fitted together with a V-shaped joint which is 

 unique. The wall here is 3ft. 4in. thick, the outer walls being 

 3ft. 3in. This arch has less of the character of a doorway than that 

 at Bradford— a point in favour of the greater antiquity of the latter. 



There were three consecration crosses discovered here under the 

 whitewash on the circular end of the apse, about 7ft. 5in. above the 

 floor, two simple lines of red colour 5in. long, crossing each other 

 at right angles and enclosed by a quatrefoil, again within a circle ; 

 there were probably three on each side of the Church, the number 

 which we have found in the much later Church at Edington. 



The oak door and its iron-work are of seventeenth century date. 



I have now described the main points of this extremely interesting 

 Church : it is difficult to assign a definite date to it, but there are 

 evidences — notably the distinct archway, rather than a doorway, 

 between the nave and chancel — of a more recent date than the 

 Church at Bradford, and yet it is not Norman. It will be observed 

 that, with the exception of the moulding on the impost of the 

 chancel arch, there is not a trace of ornamentation of any kind in 

 the original work — and the lofty proportion of the walls and 

 doorways is quite pre-Norman. I am disposed, therefore, to endorse 

 the opinion of Dr. Baron in assigning the erection of this Church 

 to the tenth century. 



