. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED io o Li M U LJu L- it is set is doubtless accounted for by the usual mediaeval process of building the east wall outside the lines of the older chancel which it was to supersede, a method very productive of errors in setting out. Later in the fourteenth century a south aisle was added, its arcade not being parallel to the existing arcade, and the final irregularity was attained by the addition of a western tower early in the fifteenth century, which appears to have been set out after the same fashion as the c
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED io o Li M U LJu L- it is set is doubtless accounted for by the usual mediaeval process of building the east wall outside the lines of the older chancel which it was to supersede, a method very productive of errors in setting out. Later in the fourteenth century a south aisle was added, its arcade not being parallel to the existing arcade, and the final irregularity was attained by the addition of a western tower early in the fifteenth century, which appears to have been set out after the same fashion as the chancelâthe west wall of the nave and aisles being rebuilt to square with the new tower, without reference to the direction of the nave arcades. Later in the fifteenth century the south aisle was lengthened eastward, and a south porch was added ; the latter was destroyed about 1823, and its outer archway now serves as a north doorway to the nave. By the beginning of the nineteenth century the church had fallen into a very bad state. In the repairs then undertaken between 1823 and 1830 the east wall of the chancel was taken down and the chancel shortened and re-roofed, and at the same time the nave received a new roof, and the south aisle was taken down and rebuilt with the old materials. The chancel has a modern east wall with a three-light window copied from the east window of Wilbraham Church in Cambridgeshire. There are two- light windows of fifteenth-century style on either side of the chancel, whose tracery appears to be modern, and in the south wall is another similar window blocked, with a small fourteenth-cen- tury priest's door, also blocked, close to it on the east. A piscina formerly in the chancel is now set at the north- west angle of the nave in the tower wall, but has entirely lost its ancient appearance in the process of ' restora- tion.' The chancel arch is plain and pointed without any moulded detail, and is probably part of the nineteenth- century repairs. Th
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