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seemed of later date than the rest of the church. Nearly
the whole of the plinth of the South pier of the chancel arch, and a small
part of that of the North are new; so also is the band of the Western
shaft of the North pier. A few small pieces of new stone were found
requisite in reconstructing the large arch (probably from its being set
with greater accuracy than was originally used); and a few pieces of
ashlar were inserted in the soffit, where the arch stones were not long
enough to reach through the thickness of the walling. The impost mouldings
of the recesses, at the sides of the chancel arch, are new; copied from
the remains of the old ones. One new stone has been supplied in the North
arch, and four in the South. In rebuilding these two arches, the mason,
without directions, transposed some of the stones, under the idea that
they had not been set in their proper order: in all probability he was
right, for they were placed
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very irregularly, and they are now arranged according to
what must have been intended by the stone-cutter who prepared them; there
is no appreciable change in the appearance.
Inside the chancel, the South side has been mostly rebuilt.
Two small windows (of Decorated date), which had been inserted, were
removed, and the primary arrangement restored. The Eastern jamb of each of
these windows was original, coeval with the church; and as the other
jambs, and the arches, were constructed with the stones of the
corresponding parts of the old windows, the restoration involved little
beyond replacing these in their primitive positions; but a few new stones
were required to complete the work. The upper string, except two small
stones, and the corbel-head on the Western side of the
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