The Chapelry of Boulton
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has a square doorcase and rounded tympanum over it. The moulding above the tympanum is of the chevron pattern and on the hood-mould is a lozenge pattern, The jambs have shafts and capitals. Up to the time of the recent restoration the chancel arch was also Norman, and ornamented with a double chevron moulding ; but this has now been taken down, and the best stones re-used in constructing the doorway into the north vestry. Sir Stephen Glynn's notes, taken May 5th, 1866, say that "one window on the north of the nave is a small Norman one." This deeply-splayed light, with an opening 20 in. by 6 in., has been moved to the vestry. He also noticed a lancet window with a trefoil head in the north wall of the chancel, near to the east end. This used to be known by the name of the "Devil's Window." It was supposed to be placed at such an angle of the building as to admit the earliest rays of the rising sun, whereby the evil spirits would be expelled from the church. The two sides of this window were parted in 1871, and, a centre mullion being inserted, it now serves as a two-light window in the north wall of the vestry. This window was of Early English date, and to that time undoubtedly belong the two shallow buttresses at the angles of the chancel. The two-light pointed east window, with a quatrefoil in the apex, is of Decorated design, circa 1300. The top of this window is cut off in the interior by a flat plaster ceiling. The date of this roof, as well as of the two square-headed south windows, divided by a plain central mullion, is probably given on a stone built into the chancel gable, which bears "W.R. I.W. C.W. 1706."
The south wall of the nave was rebuilt in 1871 ; the windows are of Perpendicular design. The porch, which is of fourteenth century or Decorated date, has a doorway with cinquefoil foliations. Its side widows are worth noting, the upper part of their interior display is finished off in an unusual way.
Mr Rawlins (1820) mentions, on the floor of the chancel, "an alabaster slab, the effigy whereon was that of a priest now entirely worn away from frequent passing over it, except the part from the head to the waist." He also noticed, within the altar rails, on another alabaster slab, "the faint remains of an Ecclesiastic and his wife (?)." This alabaster, was used in 1871 for the construction of the pulpit, the wood of the former one being utilised for a vestry cupboard. Before the last alterations there was a founders recess under one of the south
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