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are beautifully moulded; the pillars, as well as the bases, differ a little on the two sides of the chancel, the bases on the north side being alternately octagonal and rounded to each shaft, while those on the south side are all octagonal. The mouldings of the arches, too, are very fine, rich,

and deep, and consist of three series, Section of Capitals, Chancel. with a label, terminated by heads in the costume of

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the period of Edward I. Immediately to the east is a good double piscina, with credence-shelf of the same date (see next page); it has two openings, divided by a mullion, and a quatrefoil in the head, and has a pedimental canopy, with oak-leaf crockets and a rich finial. The occurrence of a piscina

in this position marks the site of an Altar, and that the chancel formerly terminated a little beyond, in a line with the east end of the north and south aisles, the part eastward of this having been added in the time of Edward III. This addition includes the east window, the Jesse window on the north, and another on the south, under which are the sedilia and piscina.

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a remarkably fine specimen of late Decorated, and is singular in its design. It is not, as is usual, divided by mullions into lights as far as the springing of the arch, but is filled with tracery almost its whole length, that in the head being intersecting, and that below flowing, alternately with the upright mullion. It has up its centre on the exterior a buttress, and in the interior a solid piece of masonry, which gives it in its present state the appearance of being two separate windows, but originally these were united by a large circle in the head, no doubt filled with tracery, and forming to

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