such churches being, as is the case at Adisham, built on the slope of a hill, and following the natural fall of the ground.
   Examining the church more closely, we see at once traces of Norman work in the lower stage of the tower, and the north-west angle has the remains of an original vaulting shaft, the drip courses shewing the position of the roofs of the Norman church still remain beneath the present roofs. About A.D. 1160 the arches of the tower were rebuilt in a pointed form, with square soffites slightly recessed; the present nave was apparently built at the same time; then came the building of the chancel and of a north aisle parallel with the nave, which evidently gabelled over three early pointed windows in its east wall, and so included the space formerly occupied by the north transept of the Norman church. There were three lancet windows in the length of its north side wall, two of which remain.
   To connect the nave with the north aisle there is a pointed arch with plain soffite and chamfered quoins, and over this is a small lancet window of a date slightly previous to the erection of this aisle, being then of course an external window. In the jambs of the window are two painted figures in frescoe—the one crowned, and with three arrows in his hand, is undoubtedly

St. Edmund; the other represents a bishop in the act of blessing. The west wall of this aisle is abutting to the wall of the nave, shewing that the nave itself is of earlier date.
   The chancel was built on a grand scale in the twelfth century and is very beautifully proportioned; it contains thirteen lancet windows, the triplet at the east end being graduated. All these windows are now filled with stained glass, the execution of which has been entrusted to Messrs. Lavers, Barraud,and Westlake, and has been admirably carried out. *
   The next change of importance was the rebuilding of the south transept in the thirteenth century, and the restoration of the north transept by cutting across the eastern half of the aisle already mentioned and throwing up its gable flush with the north wall, and the insertion of the lofty three-light traceried window in the place of the third lancet light. The history of this architectural change may be very distinctly read in the roof, the arrangement of which is very interesting. The south transept has a gabled projection on
   * A very beautiful window, the work of the same firm, has also been placed in the nave to the memory of the late Lady Victoria Villiers, wife of the present Rector, and daughter of John first Lord Russell,"by two who loved her, and wish gratefully to acknowledge her gentle influence on their lives."