. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE The earliest parts of the building are the responds of the arch to the south transept in St. Katherine's Chapel, which are of 14th-century date, and may belong to the year 1368, when the chapel was founded. These form the only remaining fragment of a church which probably consisted of a chancel with north chapel and nave with south aisle, to which this chantry was added. Owing to the rebuilding of 1862-3 ^^ tJie east end evidence of the extent of this early church is wanting, but both the chancel and n
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE The earliest parts of the building are the responds of the arch to the south transept in St. Katherine's Chapel, which are of 14th-century date, and may belong to the year 1368, when the chapel was founded. These form the only remaining fragment of a church which probably consisted of a chancel with north chapel and nave with south aisle, to which this chantry was added. Owing to the rebuilding of 1862-3 ^^ tJie east end evidence of the extent of this early church is wanting, but both the chancel and nave seem to have been of the same length as at present, though of less width. The east wall of the north chapel, however, appears to have been standing up to 1861 in a line with the east wall of the chancel, and contained a good window, of which the present window in the same position is said to aisle was added or reconstructed. The Jesus altar stood here. This aisle was lighted at its west end by a three- light window with cinquefoiled heads under a four- centred arch, the remains of which may still be seen blocked up on the outside. Later in the same century, i probably about 1450, when William and Lawrence Booth founded (or refounded) a second chantry of St. Katherine, the south aisle seems to have been rebuilt further southward. The evidence of the old plinth, now restored, showed it to be a later addition, and it is likely that the entrance to St. Katherine's Chapel was at this time taken down and reconstructed in its present posi- tion. That the south aisle is earlier in date than the 16th-century rebuilding, which brought the church to its present shape, is shown by the windows, whose jambs are moulded, in contrast with the plain cham-. I4'^ century ^^^^'^ ESI] modern Plan of Eccles Church be a ; Whether this earlier church had a north aisle it is impossible to say, and its south aisle was most likely narrower than the present one, though there is
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