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ST. MARY S CHURCH, NUN-MONKTON, YORKSHIRE. 135 of England, but is not at all usual in the south. Over the doorway, and filling up the pediment of the ])orch, is a small trefoil-headed niche. Above the porch are three fine lancet windows, the central one, the highest, running up quite into the tower. Above this in that part of the tower which rises above the gable is a square-headed trefoil window. On each angle of the front are flat buttresses, and on these and between these and the doorway are round-headed niches ; in the south-western of these is a female figure, of which the head is lost. The cornice of the parapet of the tower and of the north and south sides of the church is supported by masks. The windows on the north and south sides are plain lancets with bold drip- stones. Between these are flat buttresses spreading out laterally in the lower part. At the west end of the south side is a round-headed door, and there is a small door at the eastern end of the same side : in the same wall but eastward of the present end, are the remains of a large and highly enriched doorway of similar character to the west door. The jambs of the windows are orna- mented with banded shafts, outside of which is the tooth ornament. The capi- tals of these shafts are singular, the abacus being cut underneath into an in- dented or serrated ornament. The bases of the niche shafts are also cmious, the round moulding overhanging the square plinth. It should be mentioned that the roof has been lowered, but the original pitch is ])lainly visible, as the weather moulds still remain, and in the engraving it has been restored to its original height. Interior. — There are no aisles, the roof having been carried over the whole, as mentioned before, at a high pitch, and consequently including the greater part of the tower in the interior, Mhere it Capital of window shafts. Base of niche bta.i((.