. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE original design. The jambs and pointed heads of the windows, however, are original. The chancel is lit at the east end by a modern five-light window and by a window of three lights immediately north and south with a similar opening above ranging with the windows of the clear- story. The upper windows previous to the restora- tion had been mutilated on their west sides apparently by the building up against them of the later wall which stands in front of the older chancel wall about 2 ft. The new windows
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE original design. The jambs and pointed heads of the windows, however, are original. The chancel is lit at the east end by a modern five-light window and by a window of three lights immediately north and south with a similar opening above ranging with the windows of the clear- story. The upper windows previous to the restora- tion had been mutilated on their west sides apparently by the building up against them of the later wall which stands in front of the older chancel wall about 2 ft. The new windows, however, have been rebuilt similar to the ones below, with a pointed head, but narrower and of different shape from those of the clearstory. In the east wall south of the altar there was originally a doorway opening probably into a low vestry as at Sefton, the masonry on the outside still showing clearly where the opening has been built up.^ Below the south window 2 ft. from the floor are the piscina and aumbry side by side, the piscina having an ogee-shaped head but no and of two orders, moulded on the east side and on the west with rounded chamfers, and springing from semicircular shafts with moulded caps and square abaci, similar in detail to the nave arcade- The division between the chancel and nave is marked by large octagonal piers, 6 ft. in diameter, each contain- ing a staircase to the roof and with a half- round shaft forming a respond on three sides.' Over the arch pier on the north side of the chancel is a panel in the wall with the date 1584 in raised letters in the left-hand bottom corner, the rest of the surface being plain,^ and on one of the shields at the termination of the hood mould on the opposite side are the initials R. M. The chancel screen is modern and of oak, but pro^'ision seems to have been made in the church as built in 1582-4 for a rood loft, as in the north staircase pier there is a door high up in the wall apparently constructed for ac
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