Deum Patrem Omnipotentem." [the remaining portion of the inscription was defaced.] Probably the rest of the creed was inscribed on other parts of the Chancel walls.

In the fourteenth century, to judge by the style of the architecture, the Chancel was considerably lengthened. The windows, both at the east end, and at the north-east side of the Chancel, together with the external buttresses of this portion of it, belong to the middle-pointed or decorated style; as also does the battlemented parapet, which was no doubt, at the same time, carried round both sides of the Chancel, superseding the original, and simpler, Norman work.

Both of the windows just alluded to, are remarkable for the simplicity, yet chasteness, of their design. The [east] window consists of five lights, all terminating, with semi-continuous tracery, in a circle at the head of the window, composed of six cusped triangles. Till lately the window was for the most part blocked up with stone, and the upper tracery cut away and filled with fragments of coloured glass, most of it of a very inferior description. The lower part within was, in accordance with the taste of the last century' ornamented' with wooden panelling in a quasi-classical style, in the centre of the whole arrangement being a large oil painting of the last supper by a native artist, that testified more to his devotedness than his skill. The painting has been removed to the vestry of the Church, and the window, after a complete restoration of the stone-work, has been filled with stained glass, executed by Messrs. O'Connor, of London. The subjects of the various paintings are (1.) The Nativity,-(2.) The Baptism,-(3.) The Crucifixion,-(4.) The Entombment,-(5.) The Resurrection; and underneath are inscribed the following words from the Litany:-"By thy birth,-By thy baptism,-By thy precious death,-By thy burial,-By thy glorious resurrection,-Good Lord, deliver us." The tracery at the head of the window contains emblems of the Holy Trinity,' in honour of whom the Church is dedicated.

The window on the north-east side of the Chancel consists of two lights. The tracery is semi-continuous. At the head

of the window is a trefoil with double cusping. Possibly a window of similar design or character was at one time on the south-east side of the Chancel. If so, it must have been removed, and its place supplied by the larger one of four lights which is by no means a bad example of the Perpendicular style.

RECESSED TOMBS.-There are in the Chancel a considerable number of monumental memorials. For the present we will only speak of the two oldest and most interesting of them,the recessed tombs,-one of which is on the north, and the other on the south side. They are formed in the body of the wall of the Church, and extend to within some eight or ten feet of what would seem to have been the original eastern termination of the Chancel. Judging from the style of architecture, the extension of the Chancel and the erection of these two tombs would appear to have been the work of much the same period.

Of the two recessed tombs, the one on the north side of the Chancel is perhaps the more ancient, though there is no long interval between them. Originally, like the one on the south side, it was surmounted by a canopy; portions of the original label, and of some of the crocketting of the pediment, having been discovered among the débris, whilst clearing away a large monumental tablet, which had been fixed on the face of the wall immediately in front of it. The whole of the ornamental work had been previously destroyed, and the recess filled up, to enable the marble-mason to attach the slab in question to the wall. The effigy is a female figure, the costume of which, -(one feature being the wimple, or handkerchief round the neck and chin,)-fixes the probable date of it in the time of Edward I., or about 1280-1300. A small [and very beautiful] figure of the head of a female,-habited in like manner with the wimple, was a short time ago discovered during the progress of some repairs to the tomb, which was clearly a corbel of the label that formerly went round the outer arch. As to whose tomb it may be, we have no certain clue at all. From the ancient deeds, to which reference has been made in a previous page

(31), we might, in the absence of any definite information, hazard a plausible conjecture. Even at the middle of the 13th century the 'Hall' family, as they were in course of time designated, were persons of consequence and property in Bradford. Living, as we know they did, in the Town, and in a Mansion House,' on the site probably of the present Kingston House, it is not a little remarkable that there is no memorial in the Church, to which we can certainly point as referring to members of this family '-and yet nothing should we look for more naturally. As then we find, from a deed which bears date,-(for reasons which we have specified (p. 31) from 1247-1252, that at that time 'Agnes' is represented as the 'relict' of 'Reginald de Aulâ,' and seems, (we may also infer) to have been left a comparatively young widow, her children being under age, there is no improbability in the supposition that the tomb, of which we are speaking, may be hers. Till her children became of full age, she appears to have been the head of the family in Bradford. Though, of course, all is conjecture, still, the probable date of the tomb, -the high position she herself held,-the fact that she might well have been living at the close of the 13th century,-all lend colour to the supposition, that this recessed tomb on the north side of the Chancel may be that of 'Agnes de Aulâ.'

Of the recessed tomb on the south side of the Chancel, with its elegant and cusped canopy within, and its curious gable and small lancet window without, we have already given a drawing (pl. iii. p. 32), so that further description is unnecessary. The effigy itself is sadly mutilated, but enough remains to enable us from its costume, as well as from the mouldings and other details of the canopy, to assign its date to the beginning of the 14th century. Whose tomb it may be none can tell; the crossed legs may denote that the deceased was a person of authority, or office, under the King; for it is generally understood now that this attitude does not necessarily refer to the taking of the cross. [In a later passage in this work Canon Jones suggests that this figure may have represented William Hall, the Coroner, who lived in the latter

half of the 13th century, and apparently was still living A.D. 1315, when his name occurs as William de Bradford in a deed in the Moulton Charter Book.] It may be the tomb of Sir John de Holte, whose name occurs very frequently in deeds of the time of Edward I., and who, in the year 1314, was Sheriff of Wiltshire;-but this, of course, is mere conjecture.

Within the last eighteen months the whole of the Chancel has been fitted up with oak stalls and seats. A gallery erected in 1707 by Thomas Lewis, then Vicar, which stretched across the Chancel arch, and entirely shut out the view of the eastern part of the Church from the Nave, has also been removed. The Chancel Arch itself would seem to have been rebuilt about the end of the 15th century. There are evident traces of the rood-screen,-several fragments of it, together with an original bench end with its finial, were discovered during the progress of repairs. The rood-loft still remains. [It is not there now.] The Chancel Arch seems to have been illuminated, much of the colouring yet remaining where the thick coats of white-wash, which have been mercilessly laid on here, as in other parts of the Church, have been removed. The giving way of the south wall of the Chancel at some time, -(though certainly not within the last 220 years,)1—has caused this arch to spread considerably. Further damage has been prevented by the insertion of iron bars, one of which of great strength, though concealed by plastering and whitewashing, stretches across the Church just above the Chancel Arch, and ties the walls together.

In removing some panelling which covered the wall, two small recesses, were discovered on the south side near the east end of the Chancel; one of them would seem to have been an

1 The Chancel Roof was ceiled with plaster in the year 1636. At that time the south wall had evidently given way, as the plaster cornice is carried round, and adapted to the curvature which the line of this wall had assumed. We cannot perceive any mark of cracks in the plaster which seems much in the state in which it was first put up, so that we may fairly conclude that for at least two centuries there has been no further spreading of the Chancel wall. [This fine plaster ceiling was removed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when they erected the present hideous wooden ceiling. C.8.4.]

'Ambry,' and the other a Piscina.' The latter has been so mutilated, that it is almost impossible to say what was its original design.

THE NAVE.

The Nave is 88 feet in length and about 30 in width. The north wall has been removed for the insertion of arches, by which it is divided from an Aisle on that side. On the south we have still the original wall, the external buttresses, &c. and traces within of the long semi-circular headed windows which once existed, enabling us to pronounce it to have been of Norman date. [Canon Jones must have been mistaken in this; for the two large 15th century windows must have entirely obliterated the Norman ones for which they were substituted. The only Norman window which could have been seen by him is that over the porch; and that has been re-opened. The two large windows of the 18th century, made to give light to the pulpit, which then stood about the centre of the Nave against the south wall, were simply square openings of no architectural interest, and were built up in 1862. (C.S.A.)] The present windows are all of them later insertions; some of them indeed have been made in very modern times, and in the usual tasteless style of the 18th century. Two large windows are of Perpendicular date, and of these, the one at the west end, with a traceried transom, is particularly good: the other is filled with stained glass, the gift of Mr. John Ferrett, collected it is said, by him abroad, consisting of a number of medallions in which are depicted various scenes from the life of our Blessed Lord. The tracery is filled up with divers fragments of glass, some of which is hardly in keeping with that contained in the lower part of the window.

It may be mentioned that there appear, on either side of the present Porch, to be traces of an older door-way leading into the Nave. The Porch, as it now stands, it may be mentioned in passing, is of late date. The Niches, of which there are two -one over the interior and another over the exterior doorway, -would seem to be earlier than the remaining part of this