View from
nave into chancel. The chancel arch and former transept arches either side
date from the late 1100s. In the next picture the south arcade, showing
the three western-most arches. The fourth, easternmost, is visible in the
first picture. |
View west
from north aisle |
The arcades
are of four bays, but they are by no means a homogeneous job. First
come the two W bays of the S side. Round pier, square abacus,
trumpet-scallop capitals with some decoration. ... Pointed arches
with one slight chamfer. That indicates c.1190. At the same time or
perhaps a few years before, the transept arch, i.e. evidence of a cruciform
church ... Then, early C13, the third S arch, connecting arcade
and transept. This has a hood-mould of dogtooth. |
Only after
that the N arcade ... Round piers, octagonal abaci, arches with one
chamfer and one hollow chamfer ... good figural decoration of the
early C14. |