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Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 1 p.256
three-light trefoiled window under an ogee arch; and two
round-headed windows of two and three lights each; the
irregularity of position and variety of form and dimensions
observable being the consequence, apparently, of
enlargements and alterations which this side of the building
has undergone at different periods.
On the east side two plain, narrow, lofty buttresses, of
unequal thickness, but of only one stage each, and which die
into the wall under the battlements at the junction of the
lean-to roofs of the aisles to the walls of the chancel,
divide this end into three bays. In the centre is the large
pointed east window of the chancel, which is an exact copy
of the old one. It is divided by stone mullions into three
lights, the head being filled by plain intersecting tracery,
adorned with trefoils, and surmounted by a weather moulding
which runs down into carved flowers. The northernmost bay on
this side has a heavy stone-mullioned window of two
trefoiled lights under ogee arches. It has apparently been
of greater size formerly. The south bay contains a square,
stone-mullioned window of three round-headed lights.
The roofs are covered with slate, and those on the nave and
chancel on the south and east have an embattled parapet
resting upon a plain, slightly projecting cornice. The
battlements, which harmonise with those of the tower, are of
equal intervals, and the capping runs along the top alone.
The finish to the roof of the south aisle is less imposing,
there being only a slightly overhanging parapet terminated
by a similar capping. The roofs on the north side are also
finished in a plainer manner, that of the nave and chancel
having merely a stone parapet with the same kind of capping,
while the roof of the aisles has only a dripping eave
projecting a few inches beyond the wall, and the east end of
the roof of that aisle is furnished with a parapet like that
on the east end of the south aisle.
On the north side, placed at nearly equal intervals, are six
clerestory, stone-mullioned windows, of three
semicircular-headed lights each, and on the south are seven
clerestory windows, five of which, over the nave, are of
three round-headed lights, while the two eastermost, which
are more deeply recessed, are square-headed, and of two
lights only.
The interior consists of a tower, which is open to the nave
by a lofty, pointed arch of two chamfered orders, springing
from half or engaged octagonal piers, on a line with those
that flank the nave. Its soaring apex reaches nearly to the
tie-beams of the roof, and its wide span, which is equal to
that of the breadth of the nave before the gallery was put
up, gave to view the interior of the tower, together with
the large window in its eastern front.
A nave and chancel, which open into their lateral aisles by
arches of similar orders and design, rest upon six plain
octagonal piers, and two engaged piers at each end. The two
westernmost arches are filled with wooden paneling, so as
partly to inclose the vestry taken off the south aisle, and
the corresponding portion of the north aisle. The bases of
the piers are of the plain reversed ogee form, and all have
capitals to match.
The chancel is raised two steps above the floor of the nave,
from which it is further distinguished by the reading pew
and pulpit, and the high backs of such of the stalls as from
their transverse position face twoards the east, and make a
marked distinction between these two principal divisions of
the church. A wainscot or screen of oak, open on the upper
part, which forms the backs of the remainder of the stalls,
and is adorned with plain shields in the expanded heads of
the rails that support a heavy, embattled cornice, extends
between the the first arches from the nave, and, flanking
the chancel on the north and south, further indicates the
separation of that division of the church from its lateral
aisles.
The windows have been already noticed, and their appearance
when viewed from within offers but little that calls for
remark, save upon those that are filled with stained glass,
which will hereafter be more particularly described.
The nave, chancel, and aisles were newly flagged, leaving a
vacant space of about three feet clear between the flags and
the surface of the earth beneath. The piers, bases, and
capitals, mouldings of the arches, mullions, and jambs of
the windows were chiseled
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