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 394 ON THE LATE, OR DEBASED, all the angles. There are no ^^ndows on the north side, but on the south the nave has two, and the chancel one, and there are an east and west window, and a door on the south side. The doorway is pointed under a square label. The arches of the windows are much depressed, but shghtly pointed ; the lights are foliated and carried up to the head without tracery. The east window has five lights, and the others three lights each. The mouldings are of late character, but not debased. The bell- cot and cross are modern. The interior is very plain ; the chancel arch is semicircular, with- out mouldings, but has a screen closed with doors ; this is in the taste of the times, and is formed of semicircular arches, supported by small pillars, the whole carved with Elizabethan ornaments. The pulpit is a good specimen of this same style. The standards of the open seats are, as is usual at this period, rude, clumsy, and massive, the poppies being in imitation of the more ancient fleur-de-lis. The roof is a copy of an early form, and consists of prin- cipals, collar and curved braces, very plain and simple, but producing a good effect. This building is in- teresting from show- ing that here, as at Wadliam College before mentioned, thouo'h the house was built in the revived manner, it was still thought necessary to keep the chapel in the old style, that being considered even then as exclusively ecclesiastical. In the foregohig remarks, though very imperfectly exe- cuted, it has been intended to show by the buildings of Oxford, not only the gradual decline of Gothic architecture, but also the attempts, more or less successful, which were made from time to time to stay its progress. It was, how- ever, for a time doomed to perish, and no efforts could save it. In the buildings of the period following that which Roof of Chapel, Water Eaton.