Fig. 180.—Cruggleton Church. Chancel Arch. From South-East.
to enable the outline to be distinctly traced. The best preserved and most important feature was the chancel arch, which was 8 feet in width. Its architecture, which was extremely simple, was of the early Norman style. It had three orders on the side next the nave (see [Fig. 179.]), each side having two nook shafts, built in courses and provided with cushion caps. The inner jambs were plain, and the aperture in the wall was simply faced with a square ingoing of ashlar, and enclosed on the side next the chancel ([Fig. 180]) with a single square-edged arch springing from a very plain impost.
Mr. Muir points out that when he visited the church the walls, “except the west one, which wants the gable, are at about their full height; but
Fig. 181.—Cruggleton Church. Plan.
most of the dressed stones have been torn from the corners of both compartments, the chancel arch and other parts easily got at.” He could not discern traces of there having
