Enlarging the Chancel
A
hundred years or so later the chancel roof was
raised and new windows put in.
The chancel may have been extended to the east
as during work in Victorian times to buttress
the east wall burials were found underneath the
wall which could only have been put there when
there was no wall above.
The earlier roof
line can be seen on the east wall looked at from
the outside.
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| New windows were put into the chancel with the raised roof level. These are the oldest remaining windows in the church and are described as Decorated. |
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In the north wall by the altar at the east end of the chancel is an aumbry for holding the vessels for the celebration of Holy Communion. The reserved host (the consecrated bread unused at the end of the Mass) may have been kept here as well, with a lighted candle or lamp indicating its presence so that parishioners could reverence the Body of Christ . Built into the thickness of the south wall near the altar is a piscina with its drainage hole for washing the communion vessels. |
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