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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH CHURCH

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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH CHURCH try in 13G5, by Sir Godfrey Foljambe, and Avena his wife, wiiose monument, two upright half length figures under a canopy, is inserted into one of the piers on the south side of the nave. The present nave then was probably erected c. 1110. In the interior, it is separated from the side aisles by arches resting on piers of solid masonry, instead of pillars. These are mostly about 6 feet 6 inches wide, 3"feet thick, and 12 feet high to the impost, and the openings between them vary from 10 feet 6 inches, to 12 feet. I he Nave Arjl.. s, Soutb Aisle Impost or Nave Arches. The arches are semicircular, of rude construction, square- edged, not recessed, and without mouldings. The imposts have been plain projecting blocks with a chamfered edge, resting on corbels, resembling a conuuon Norman corbel- table ; one only is left, the others have been cut away, or rejjlaced by a plain chamfered impost without corbels. Some of the original clerestory window^s still remain, in- serted over the centre of the piers, and now opening into the side aisles, the walls and roof of wdiich were raised about the middle or end of the thirteenth century. These windows arc narrow lights externally, resting upon a weather- table, still perfect, with a very wide splay towards the nave, of rude workmanship, and without any relief of mould- ings, or string-course. Above is another range of clerestory windows, s(|uare-hcaded, in the early Pei-pendicidar style, added probably early in the fifteenth century. ^Phc west walls of the side aisles ai'c recessed with arches, but whether in-

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