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THE CHURCH AT A GLANCE
| Approx. dates. |
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| Pre-Christian : |
Tympanum over south-east priest's door. Probably from pagan temple on site of church. |
| Before 850 : |
Small church of tower, nave and chancel only, erected probably on site of pagan worship. |
| 1000: |
" Strap interlaced " work now under south end of chancel arch. |
| 1040-1050: 1070-1160 : |
Tower arch rebuilt or widened and embellished. Nave and chancel taken down, enlarged ; tower left up. |
| 1160: |
North aisle added ; rich door put in south wall of nave. |
| 1190: |
Chapel of S. Thomas a Becket added, east end of north aisle. Aisle and chancel walls pierced for access. |
| 1190-1220 : |
Font put in. |
| 1260- |
Double piscina installed. |
| I300-I340(?) : |
Possibly, as in most country churches, north aisle windows enlarged, but wall has been rebuilt, so no evidence exists for this. |
| 1425-1443 : |
William de Chaumbre gives bell ; top stage of tower added ; newel-stair of tower built ; Saxon windows of tower blocked up ; buttresses tacked on to tower, south-east corner, and south wall of chancel ; chancel arch rebuilt ; chancel east window enlarged and filled in with stained glass, and west window put in tower ; present window and priest's door put in chancel south wall ; nave heightened, clerestory built, new roofs put on nave and north aisle ; and probably a porch with parvise put in front of Norman door in nave south wall. |
| 1774 : |
Chancel screen removed, pulpit erected. |
| 1821-1832 : |
First gallery erected ; roofs " underceiled ;" north wall of aisle taken down and rebuilt wider than original ; north wall of Becket chapel rebuilt and door inserted ; south aisle, vestry and vestry porch built ; Norman door moved from nave south wall to tower west wall ; much refacing and alteration of exterior surface of church walls ; second gallery erected 1828. |
| 1868 : |
General restoration, including stripping of plaster of tower exterior. Font bowl restored to Church. |
| 1892: |
Present gallery adaptcJ from second gallery, and arch made to organ chamber. |
| 1935 : |
Clearing of overgrown churchyard ; restoration of altar of S. Thomas of Canterbury on December 28th. |
| August 1936 : |
Rediscovery of Saxon window-shaft in west window of tower. |
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