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as the nave walls, and carried a lean-to roof; but the extension at the south end was
built up a storey higher and roofed in gable form, as may be seen in the south ele-
vation (Ill. 231), from which it must be argued that an arch originally divided the
extension from the sanctuary proper and carried the corresponding upper wall and gable;
but this is the only missing part of the walls of the building which is otherwise com-
plete so far as its stone portions are concerned, excepting the four columns in the south
portico. A row of holes for the ends of the timbers, which appear in the west wall,
just below the windows, suggest that an open porch, without end walls, was carried


ill. 231.

across the west facade. The western doorway is unadorned save by a disc carved
upon a square placque in relief upon its lintel; but the westernmost of the two south
portals is framed in good fifth-century mouldings, and crowned by a bevel faced door-
cap carved with flat lace-like geometrical patterns. The windows, are all round-topped
and unadorned. The capitals of the columns of the portico are of Ionic form, and
the pier caps at the ends of the portico, and the architraves, are composed of good
fifth-century mouldings. The interior ornament consists of the mouldings of the chancel
arch, - two fascias and a cymatium crowned with cuspings —, which are carried over
the high arch and horizontally to the walls on either side, the caps of the chancel
piers, composed of plain erect acanthus leaves, and, perhaps one might include, the