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��replaced a narrower building coeval with or older than the west tower. Its east wall is almost entirely modern, and contains three round-headed lights with a circular wheel-window over, in 12th-century style. The north and south walls of the chancel are for the most part old, and in each are two round- headed windows, modern on the outside, but with old internal jambs having shafts at the angles with moulded bases and carved foliate capitals of several types, c. 1 1 80.

The rear arches are semicircular, and have moulded outer orders with billet-moulded labels, which con- tinue between the windows as a string-course. Below

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��the sills of the windows is another string, being in section a keeled roll.

Near the east ends of both walls are rectangular lockers with plain rebated jambs and square heads, fitted with modern doors ; and between the two north windows is a modern doorway leading to the vestries, with moulded jambs and pointed arch.

At the west end of the south wall of the chancel is a modern opening to the organ-chamber in 12th- century style, and above it an open arcade of inter- lacing round arches.

The organ-chamber is circular on plan, lighted by four narrow round-headed windows, and by a series of small circular windows high in the wall. On the west side of the chamber is a tall narrow opening to the south aisle with a semicircular arch and scalloped capitals.

��The chancel arch is semicircular, and is of three orders, the two inner ones being modern and having moulded edge rolls, but the outer order on the west face is a pretty piece of late 12th-century work, with a lozenge pattern with leaf-carving in the spandrels between it and the label, which has a line of dog- tooth ornament on the chamfer. The jambs are of old stonework and quite plain, with modern scalloped capitals and corbels.

The north and south arcades of the nave are en- tirely modern, and are of four bays with semicircular arches and round columns having moulded bases and scalloped or carved capitals, with corbels to correspond at each end. The eastern bay on the north side opens to the north chapel, and instead of a column has a square pier to take the western arch of the chapel.

The chantry has an early i6th century east window of four cinque- foiled lights with a traceried four- centred head and a moulded label, the inner jambs being worked with a large casement moulding, and on the north side of the window is a canopied niche, now without a base ; the canopy has trefoiled ogee arches with crockets and finials and small crocketed pinnacles be- tween. Manning and Bray note that in their time there was a corresponding niche on the south side. Two plaster figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, now in the vestry, are said to have stood in these niches.

Against the north wall of the chapel is a canopied tomb, which is described below ; and to the west of it a plain contemporary doorway with a three- centred arch ; while above it is a win- dow of two cinquefoiled lights in a square head. .The arch opening to the aisle is modern, and corresponds to the adjacent arches of the nave arcade.

The north aisle has two modern windows in its north wall, each having three cinquefoiled ogee lights under a square head ; and at the west end of the aisle is a modern doorway.

The three windows of the south aisle are likewise modern, except the small west window, which is old work reset, its inner splayed jambs and rear arch being perhaps of 13th-century date.

The tcwer opens to the nave by a modern round- headed arch, and has in its north wall a modern two- light window of 1 2th-century design.

In the south wall of the tower near the west end is an old doorway, now leading into a cupboard in the wall, but originally intended to open to the stairs to the belfry.

The 12th-century west doorway in the tower has jambs of two square orders with engaged shafts having scalloped capitals arid chamfered abaci ; the arch is semicircular, and has a heavy roll between two plain orders. It opens to a porch with small loop-lights in each side wall, and a western arch with chamfered jambs and a modern moulded label.

The tower is low in proportion to its width, and

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