. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE west tower. Both chapels projected beyond the line of the aisle walls north and south, and were separated from the chancel by oak The chancel was of the same width as the nave, there being apparently no structural division. No illustration of the building remains, though it is said to have been of a plain late type of Gothic, with low overhanging eaves and dormer From remains still exist- ing in the east wall of the tower the old nave seems to have been 15 ft. 6 in. wide,53 with a
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE west tower. Both chapels projected beyond the line of the aisle walls north and south, and were separated from the chancel by oak The chancel was of the same width as the nave, there being apparently no structural division. No illustration of the building remains, though it is said to have been of a plain late type of Gothic, with low overhanging eaves and dormer From remains still exist- ing in the east wall of the tower the old nave seems to have been 15 ft. 6 in. wide,53 with aisles 8 ft. wide, the total length of the nave and chancel being 79 During the 17th and 18th centuries little or nothing seems to have been done to keep the structure in adequate repair, and shortly before its demolition Dr. Whitaker wrote that he had seldom seen ' greater appearances of squalid neglect and approaching decay.'65 The rebuilding consisted of the present wide aisleless nave, 69 ft. by 45 ft., in the Gothic style of the period, and was finished in 1826. To this a chancel, 36 ft. by 22 ft., with north vestries and south organ- chamber occupying to some extent the position of Gothic work,68 contrasting sharply with the nave, the windows of which are tall, narrow single lights. The nave roof is of one span, covered with slate, and has a flat plaster-panelled ceiling. The tower, which is 13 ft. 3 in. square inside and built of gritstone, has diagonal buttresses of seven stages, a projecting vice in the south-east corner and an embattled parapet with the stumps of angle pinnacles. On the string course below the parapet on the south side area four-leafed flower and the date icji which probably gives the year of the building of the tower, and on the vice the string bears the initials The stages are unmarked externally by string courses, and on the north and south sides the walls are quite plain except for the belfry windows, which are of three lights under a po
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