ECCLKSTASTICAli ARCHITFXTUKR IX NORFOLK. :'A a sketch is given), similar double s|)laYe(l windows, both cir- cular and oblono, occur in the nave and in the chancel. The Chancel Arch, Franilingliam Pigot. entire church is of one period, except the more modern window^s and doors, which have beeu inserted. Some early English windows are put into the places of the original double splayed ones, and a small piscina and priest's seat occupy the opening of one of them. In the original church there do not appear to have been any piscina or sedilia. All the quoinings of the church are of Homan shaped tiles, and, in some places, herring-bone work is seen. The old windows are of rubble, but the jambs and arches of the more recent windows and doors are of ashlar freestone. The height of the ancient gable of the nave may still be traced at a lower pitch than the present, the reverse of what is usually the case. There is no tower remaining. In the interior, the chancel arch itself is formed of rubble and flints, and the abacus and jambs have either been removed, so as to assume a trefoil-headed shape, or else the arch w^as originally left in that unfinished state, to be completed at some future time. I mention this, as it throws light upon the corresponding chancel arch in the church of 8t. Andrew^ Framlingham Earl, the adjoining parish. This church resembles the former, except that the quoinings are of rough flints. There is only VOL. vr. 3c-
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