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 17G THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY, GUILDFORD. to correspond M-ith it, and as usual the others all have the scjuare abacus. Many of the windows are single lancets of the time of Ilenr^' 111., others of the time of Edward II. or III. At the west end of the north aisle, is a small square window under the lai'ger west window, and this is of the character called a " Leper's window ; " it had, until the last few years, only an iron grating and a shutter, and no glass. It is not the usual position for a window of this class, and is supposed to indicate that there was a lepers' hospital near tliis end of the church. Chantry chapels have been added and enclosed at various j)eriods, as shown by the remains of the altars belonging to each ; the two in the apses of the transept have been already mentioned, both of them must have been made in the time of Henry II. The later chantry chapels were each at the east end of the nave aisle, the altar must in each case have stood against the parclose screen under the wide arch at the west end of the transept chapel. There must have been two on the south side, as there are two piscina? remaining, one of earlier date than the other ; these piscina; are opposite to each other against the piers of the wide arch before men- tioned. On the south side we have the ambry only remain- ing. The piscina has been destroyed ; but there is enough to show that there was only one altar on this side, and two on the southern side. Those who have been in Brittany, where the old arrangements remain unaltered, will know how numerous these chantry altars are, and the small space that each occupies ; they sometimes go down both sides of the aisle. This ambry is in the sill of a decorated window of the time of Edward III., and shows that a chantry was founded at that time.' ^i'he west door and window of the nave are of the time of Henry Vll., and the opening under the west window of the south ai.slc was probably inserted at that time. Tlio roofs of nave and aisle are good ojicn tim1)er work of unly conjpcturo, from tlio common prnc- of a n-ctor in tlio Hfcontl year of Kdward ticc of liiiililin^ narrow ai/tlcN, with li-aii- III., wliioh m.-iy |>crli:tim hear rofcrcncc to V) nlopin^ Tt>»U, in tlu.- i-arly part of tli«» tlio Cliaiitry <"lia|'i'I, aii<l anotlicr in twelfth <:ontiry, . mil I 'tiiiil'linK tl<" oiitor tint Kith of lUchiiril II., which may ho walU at (loitblu the width half a century coniH'<t4Ml with nncithcr rhintry. There or a cuntury aft«rwardN, with high gablu inn wimlow'of thiN jieriiMl in tlio wont end roof/t. of tlio Month ainle, and under it, in thu ' Wo have in the Patvnt IlolU a nritice cxU-rior, in a niehe for an image.