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turret staircase, which is coeval with the alteration of the tower 

 (and not with the Norman work as Canon Jones gives it in his 

 plan), carried up within it, causing a great obstruction. The door- 

 way for entrance to this staircase, and the one which opened on to 

 the rood loft can be easily traced, and the corbels which carried the 

 loft over the transept chapel, &c, remain. 



There are a few bits of old glass of late fifteenth century date 

 remaining in the windows of the transepts, that on the south having 

 the letters LB. (which Canon Jones regards as pointing to Sir John 

 Baynton), whilst an angel with censer, and the figure of S. Gabriel 

 with the inscription " Ave plena gratia Dominus tecum/' &c, indicates 

 the subject of the Annunciation as having been here. The north 

 transept was, then, probably the lady chapel. The two three-light 

 windows in these transepts, though slightly different in design, are 

 the work of the same period. 



The upper part of the tower was not completed until after these 

 were finished — or about 1480. The tower is without buttresses, 

 and the turret was finished level with the parapet, the raising of it 

 is modern. At about this time the chapel on the south side of the 

 chancel was erected, and the arms of Sir Richard Beauchamp, Lord 

 S. Amand (who died in 1508) in the parapet, point to him as the 

 probable founder of it. The similarity of the rich work of this 

 parapet to that at Bromham strikes one at once, and suggests that 

 they are the work of the same hand. It is interesting to note that 

 exactly the same thing was done here as at Bromham in building 

 the chapel — viz., the south transept was incorporated with it ; the 

 walls were raised ; the high-pitched roof altered and the elaborate 

 parapet of the chapel carried round. There are, here, pinnacles at 

 the angles and in centre of the gable. The chapel has good four- 

 light windows in the east and west walls, with bits of the old glass 

 in the former. The arch into the chancel has the same corbelled 

 treatment as that between the south aisle and transept ; the one 

 between the transept and chapel is modern, as are also the roofs of 

 both. 



After the chapel the aisles appear to have been re-built. This 

 work is debased, and the doorways especially indicate this. The 



