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 3(>2 SAXON ECCLESIASTICAL REMAINS IN NORFOLK. one double splayed round window remaining (at least that is visible), and, instead of the unsightly chancel arch in the sister church, there is a late Norman one of a very elaborate description and of exquisite beauty. The graceful arrange- ment of the mouldings is much to be admired. There are also two highly ornamented doorways on the north and south sides of the nave, which are etched by Cotman. These are of freestone, and the contrast of that material with the rubble work of the other portions of the church, affords a strong proof of the greater antiquity of the latter. In the tower of the church of St. Julian, Norwich, there are also double splayed windows, and a trefoil headed window below, but the plastered walls of the nave and chancel will not allow further observations to be made. In the church of St. Andrew, Colney, the tower likewise has double splayed arches. The tower arch leading into the nave is of a very rude and primitive construction, formed of thin flints of the shape best adapted to make an arch ; and the abacus, of several pieces of rough stone, is also remarkable. Similar double splayed windows occur in that gem of early churches, St. Mary, Great Dunham. This edifice has been so fully and frequently described, that I wiU only remark, with reference to the subject of this paper, that the long and short work of the quoins is of ashlar stone, and well and closely jointed. The enrichments of the straight-sided arch on the west side of the arcade, within the nave, and of the tower arches, and especially the hood-mouldings around them, together with the general plan of the church, similar to that of many Norman churches, all appear to me to indi- cate late Saxon vfCnk. At the same time, it is evident that the eni-ich- ments do not accord with the plain- ness of early Norman work. The position of the small circular windows in the upper part of the tower has been pointed out to me as unique ; but the ruined tower of All Saints Church, Waborne, shows them in a similar place, on either side of a double straight-sided arch. '"'^"' •""""• The sot-off beneath the circular arcade is composed of small flints, indicative of a great lack of free-stone, and