aisle. But more importantly, the tower was raised by a further storey, Professor Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) in the Leicestershire
volume of the 'Buildings of England' ascribing a late C14 date for the style of the tower's top stage.
The C15 was clearly a time when much further work was done to the church. The arcade was rebuilt to support a clerestory. Other
work done in this century was the replacement of three of the south aisle windows.
Except for the insertion of a now vanished gallery at the west end of the nave, little more seems to have been done until the C19.
The top stage of the tower, south porch and chancel arch were restored, and the nave roof in greater part replaced. A new roof was
put on the chancel and its east window renewed. Parapets were added to the chancel, clerestory and aisles, and gable crosses
placed on the chancel and nave. Additions were also made to the south side of the church. This involved making a new vestry to the
east, and an organ chamber between the new vestry and east wall of the south aisle. This was all the work of the Victorian architect
Henry Woodyer (1816-96) of Guildford, in 1882-3, the cost being defrayed by the then vicar, the Reverend A.W. Booker. A condition
of the church's restoration was that those parts of the church referred to in the faculty for the restoration as being 'in a most
dilapidated condition' should faithfully reproduce the features of the old work.
The only development of note in the C20 was to convert the organ chamber into a room for storage and to reposition the instrument
at the east end of the south aisle.
The Nave
The high standing north wall has a blocked doorway, probably of the C13. Though there is little evidence to help us date it, the north wall was probably rebuilt while the south aisle was being added, i.e. in the late C13. The north wall possesses only one window; this is a square-headed window of two ogee lights c.1320. The clerestory windows of the C15 are each of two lights. It will be noted that the west of these on the north side has trefoil lights, and the other two, cinquefoil lights. The three clerestory windows over the arcade are similar to those on the north, all of them however having cinquefoil lights. Note how the east of these is positioned disproportionately to the east to illuminate a now vanished rood.
