A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . on the south side,is thinner than the old. The sacristy door in the south wallwas blocked up ; and the east wall impinges so closely on itseastern jamb that one is justified in supposing that, during this 120 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY. rebuilding, the chancel was shortened by at any rate a fewinches. A new string was taken round the whole chancelbelow the sills of the windows, and the older buttresses, roundwhich it is continued, were perhaps rebuilt. The north-eastand south-east corners of the chancel were strengthened bynew buttresses, set diago
A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . on the south side,is thinner than the old. The sacristy door in the south wallwas blocked up ; and the east wall impinges so closely on itseastern jamb that one is justified in supposing that, during this 120 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY. rebuilding, the chancel was shortened by at any rate a fewinches. A new string was taken round the whole chancelbelow the sills of the windows, and the older buttresses, roundwhich it is continued, were perhaps rebuilt. The north-eastand south-east corners of the chancel were strengthened bynew buttresses, set diagonally, 2 feet broad, and some 3! feetin projection, which have their outer angles chamfered andare carefully bonded into the adjoining new masonry. Thesebuttresses have base-courses with a plain chamfer, single off-sets, and stepped sloping tops. The older buttresses seem nowto have been finished off with sloping tops ; but the keeledstring-course, forming a hood-moulding to the lancets andcontinued round the buttresses, was left alone, and, even.
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