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corresponding with that on the outside of the building, was found, much
worn by exposure to the weather.* It had been worked on the back
edge of a corbel carved with a rose, and suitable for the external
cornice; the rose was quite clean, as if new, and, from its style, perhaps
rather older than the string moulding. In the same place was also found a
head, and a corbel-head like those in the cornice, and another small head
of apparently later date. In all the walls, fragments of squared stones
and ashlar which had been used in some former building were found; as were
also two or three fragments of patterns inlaid in stone, of character
resembling that marked above. Part of the external string, on the North
side of the chancel, was worked on the back edge of corbels corresponding
with those in the cornice; and as two (I think) of these corbels at the
North-east part of the nave were decayed, their place
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was supplied with others, taken from the chancel string; and. that
string was made good with new stone.
The mortar used in the construction of the chancel arch, and
the recesses at the sides of it, was of rather darker colour than that of
the rest of the building. But the upper part of the walling, over the
chancel arch, was built with light-coloured mortar. Very rough arches,
formed with flints, were found, at the level of the lower impost
mouldings, in the side next the nave, of the walling at the back of the
recesses. In the Southern recess, there was some appearance of there
having been a small opening through to the
* This had been placed where it was found long after the
erection of the church; possibly when the West window was introduced; but
much more probably in some modern repair.
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