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expected from its dependent position, and consists of nave, chancel, 

 and vestry : as the two latter are new, the account of the old chancel 

 given in Canon Jones' paper has a special value. It was of singular 

 dimensions — only lift, wide, and 20ft. long; the east window 

 consisted of two trefoil-headed lights. From this description we 

 may conclude that the chancel was — as Canon Jones states — coeval 

 with the nave. The latter only, however-, remains to claim our 

 attention. The character of the work leads me to suppose that it 

 is a little later than Canon Jones gives it ; it may be put at between 

 1370 and 1390. The west end has a reticulated window of four 

 lights,with carved label terminals, flanked by buttresses. The existing 

 bell turret is modern. There is a two-light square -headed window 

 in the north wall, and a similar one opposite on the south side, the 

 head of which has been lowered. There are also doorways of the 

 same date opposite each other nearer to the west end; the one on 

 the north has the corbel and pinnacles of a niche over it, that on 

 the south retains its original wrought iron hinges with fleur-de-lis 

 terminations. The nave has diagonal buttresses at the four angles, 

 and the one at the north-west angle is of exceedingly rich and rare 

 design — the upper part of it is treated with niches in the three faces 

 with carved corbels and canopies, and at the two external and two 

 internal angles are detached semi-octagonal turret-like pinnacles, 

 with carved corbels starting at the same level as those of the niches, 

 and having embattled cornices from behind which the figures of 

 angels peep out ; the top of the buttress is finished with an ordinary 

 weathering. It is probable from this feature, and from the north 

 doorway having a niche for the figure of the patron saint, that 

 the approach to the Church was formerly in this direction. The 

 chancel arch is coeval with the rest of the work, and has a curious 

 ball-moulding on the east face. The most unusual feature of a 

 single-light window on each side in the east wall appears to 

 have existed here until the new and larger chancel was built. These 

 have been blocked up. 



The font is a Transition Norman one, from which we may conclude 

 that a Church stood here at that period. 



The carved stone inside the Church, representing the Archangel 



