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��ing from attached wall shafts which rise from the floor of the chancel. These are formed of three shafts, the middle one keeled, with moulded bases and plain bell capitals with moulded abaci. The main rib against the east wall is carried on pairs of shafts of a similar type with two shafts supported on pointed corbels. The ribs at the western end are also carried on corbels. The diagonals have a hollow chamfer between two rolls, the hollow in those of the western bay being filled with dog-tooth ornament. The chancel arch is pointed. The north and south tower arches are round, with chamfered labels on the sides toward the chapels. Each of these arches cuts into a double-splayed 1 1 th-century window above, that on the north side being almost in the middle of the wall, and that on the south, east of the middle. On the outer face of either wall are four pilaster strips of flint masonry, the middle pair of each being inter- rupted by the archways. The western archway is

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��contemporary with the arcades of the nave, and will be described with them.

The apse of the north chapel has three windows. That to the south is an original lancet ; the middle one is of three lights, and the northern of two lights ; both are of 14th-century date. The arch at the entrance of the apse is pointed, of a single order, with roll edges. The south jamb has been cut away, and the arch springs on that side from a plain corbel supporting a grooved and hollow-chamfered abacus similar to that of the north jamb, which runs to the ground.

The early 14th-century north window next to the apse is of three ogee lights, cinquefoiled and having quatrefoils over, in a square head. Opposite the east face of the tower the wall thickens from z ft. 8 in. to 3 ft. z in., giving evidence of the earlier transept. In this wall is a mid- 14th-century window similar to that just described. The tracery is restored. Both these windows have wooden lintels. A half-round

��string-course runs round the apse below the windows, broken by the first three-light window and dropped below the other.

The apse of the south chapel, St. Mary's Chapel, is lighted by two lancet windows restored outside the east lancet is original, and the south shows a 13th-century heightening. The head of a third appears above the round-headed doorway to the vice in the angle of the apse with the chancel. The vaulting of this apse is of similar detail to the other, but the three bays are equal in size. On the south side of the apse is a small 14th-century piscina, now much damaged ; it has an ogee trefoiled head, a projecting half-round basin, and an intermediate shelf ; below the windows is a half-round string-course, continuing along the south wall to the west arch of the chapel.

The two south windows of the chapel are modernized outside, but were probably inserted in the 1 4th century. Each is of three trefoiled lights under a square head. Below the first window is a modern doorway.

The nave has an arcade of four bays on either side ; the pillars are circular. The responds are half-round, as are also the jambs of the archway from the nave to the tower. All the capitals, including those to the tower arch but excepting the middle one of the north arcade are square, and carved with scallop ornament enriched in various man- ners, some having spirals at the angles and others nail- head or tooth ornament ; the abaci are grooved and hollow chamfered. The middle capital on the north side has been mutilated by being cut back in order, it is said, to enable an occu- pant of the former west gal- lery in the north aisle to see the pulpit from his seat ; it is now moulded and of round plan ; the corners of the arches have been chamfered off also to find a seating. The arches are all pointed and of a single order with a small keeled edge roll towards the nave and a small hollow chamfer on the other side ; the label on the east side of the tower arch is chamfered ; that on the west side, and those on either side of each arcade, are grooved and hollow chamfered. Over the north jamb of the tower arch is a late 15th-century doorway to the rood-loft from the tower ; it was evidently approached by a wood stair or ladder in the tower.

The west doorway, which is restored throughout, has jambs of two chamfered orders and a two-centred arch ; the rear arch has a double-ogee mould, which is old. The window over is all modern excepting the inner stones of the jambs and arch ; it is of five uncusped lights under a traceried head ; the jambs are moulded inside and out with a wide hollow. The archway from the north aisle to the chapel

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