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church seems to have been built rather late in the Norman period. The
nave was originally lighted by small single windows, very widely splayed
internally ; of these only two remain in the north wall, partly
blocked by a monument. Two other windows on this side are modern
insertions of decorated character, in one of which are two heads in stipple.
Upon the south are also two recent insertions of corresponding design ;
one of these is tilled with modern painted glass. Near the en-
trance into the chancel on the south side is an arch which formerly
opened into a chapel or chantry built in the churchyard in the manner
of a transept about the middle of the thirteenth century. This is now
blocked to the spring of the arch and the upper portion made into a
window. The chancel rises one pace from the nave, and Mr. King is of
opinion that an arch formerly divided it from the nave. An intersecting
Norman arcading, with chevron ornament worked upon its face and con-
tinued to its plinth, runs along both north and south walls. On the
south side only the first and last arches remain ; but a larger portion
remains on the north side, the lower portion of which is unfortunately
concealed by the pewing, and some part has been cut away for the
erection of the monument to Giles Breame. The chancel opens into the
sacrarium by a plain semi-circular Norman arch of two reveals. The
semi-circular apse is very small, and lighted by three little single Norman
windows very widely splayed; and between them, ou the outside, are
two shallow, flat buttresses. The centre window was filled with stained
glass, in memory of Mr. William Dennison, who died in 1861. On the
south side is a double piscina of Early English work, consisting of two
trefoil-headed arches, separated by a detached shaft, having moulded cap
and base beneath a containing arch, which springs from shafts on either
side; over the central shaft is a bracket, supported by a corbel head,
probably intended for a lamp. Both basins are scalloped. The priest's
door, pointed, and now blocked up, occupies the space between this
piscina and the abutment cf the arch. On the opposite side there seems
to have been an aumbry. About thirty-five years ago the limewash was
removed from the walls of the chancel and apse, and the mural paintings
which you now see were discovered, consisting of masonry pattern,
trefoils, figures, and scroll work. Mr. Geo. Buckler considered them as
probably early thirteenth century work. Of the tower little need be
said, fas the upper portion is of brickwork of recent date. There is,
however, one ancient bell, inscribed in Old English with the customary
kind of jingling Latin rhyme 'Dulcis sisto melis, bocor campana
Gabrielis.' The various monuments now claim our attention, and on
the north side of the apse is the fine monument in memory of Edward
Nevill, the (reputed) Seventh Earl of Westmoreland, who with his wife
and daughters are buried beneath. The Earl and Countess are sculp-
tured in marble, kneeling opposite to each other, with a double lectern
between. He is accoutred in the armour of his time, and both himself
and his wife are in robes lined and trimmed with ermine. Above are
the arms and supporters of the Nevills, and on either side a draped
female figure ; while no less than fifteen escocheons of their quarterings
adorn the monument. The sixth Earl was attainted in 1570 for heading
an insurrection in favour of Marie Stuart, and thus forfeited his honours.
Beneath his monument is an altar tomb to the memory of their eldest
daughter, Katherine, who died in 1618, with some curious lines, and at
the base are the kneeling effigies of the seven children of the Earl—
'Devoutly kneeling side by side,
As though they did intend
For past omissions to atone
By saying endless prayers in stone.'
Jane Taylor.