of thirty-six men of the parish who gave their lives
during the Great War. It is not easy to conjecture
the purpose for which this recess was originally
constructed ; it may have been an aumbry, or possibly
held a picture. The window at the west end of the
north aisle is pointed and of different character
from the three other windows, being similar to the
two windows in the South Aisle. The windows in
the north wall are fiat-arched and date from the late
Fifteenth or early Sixteenth Century ; they contain
a few fragments of old stained glass. The north
doorway belongs to the early part of the Fifteenth
Century; it is now blocked Up, but was possibly
in use until the time when the old manor house,
South Bemfleet Hall, which formerly stood to the north
of the church, was destroyed.
The South Aisle was added to the Norman Nave in
the time of Edward II, so that the arcading separating
this aisle from the nave is of the "Decorated" period.
The original octagonal columns and arches remain,
except in the case of the column just to the east
of the Porch. This is of different character from the
rest and was rebuilt, as the result of some failure of
the foundations in the Sixteenth Century. The
windows, which date from about 1430, are pointed,
and contain two-cusped lights with mullioned tracery
in the head At the east end there was formerly a
chapel ; the Fourteenth Century piscina remains.
There is, above this piscina, a bracket on the south
wall; this appears to belong to the Sixteenth or
Seventeenth Century, and was probably some form
of mural monument containing a bust or urn. On
the east wall there is a small bracket which may have
supported an image of the Virgin.
The Chancel Arch appears to have been constructed
about 1240, judging from the Early English shafts,
with well-mounted bases and capitals, forming the
responds, but the arch itself is of later date and
belongs to the "Perpendicular" period; it does not
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