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 LOW SIDE WINDOWS. 321 . - ,ffllfffo,„', 4.^rr same age, and made to fit the openings, which seems to mark them as distinct from this class, though their use is equally obscure. Of the fifteenth century examples are numerous, and fre- quently insertions in earlier walls. At Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, a window of two lights, square-headed, with straight-sided sub-arches to the lights, is inserted under a very good Decorated window on the south side. At Eccleshall, Staffordshire, a square-headed window of three lights is inserted under a lancet window, cutting off* the lower part of it, and having a wooden Hntel. This is in a fine Early English chancel. At Blisworth, Northamptonshire, the low side window on the north side of the chancel has a trefoil head and a square dripstone over it. There is another on the south side, but that is quite plain. At Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, is one in a remarkable situation, near the east end of the south aisle of the nave, which is sepa- rated from the chancel aisle only by a low wall, on which has been a screen ; against the screen was a chantry altar, and between the altar and the piscina belonging to it was this opening, so that the priest officiating at the altar must have been quite close to the low side WmdOW. BUsworth, Northamptonshire. At Hellesdon, Norfolk, is a very good example, with the original wooden shutter and iron-work perfect. At Wetherall, Cumberland, there is a late example on the south side of the chancel ; it is of two hghts, round-headed, with a square dripstone over them. Between the head of the window and the dripstone is cut in good old Enghsh letters, " ©rate pro animo S2HtlI. ©Dornton, abbas." There was a Benedictine priory here. On the splay of the