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Chancel

The chancel was built in the late 13th or early 14th century. On the external walls there are two diagonal buttresses at each corner of the east wall, with another against the north wall. Inside, the chancel is entered through the unmoulded pointed chancel arch, which dates from about 1300. On the south side of the chancel arch is the consecration cross, usually inscribed by the mason for the bishop's consecration ceremony. Within the chancel itself in the south wall, separating the two windows, can be seen a small arched doorway known as the "priest's door".

There are five windows in the chancel: the east window and two in both north and south walls. In the north wall are two single trefoiled ogee lights, while in the south wall are two late 14th century square-headed windows with cinquefoil lights. The east window also dates from this period; the exterior stonework was restored in 1998. The glass was installed in memory of Edward Morland Chaplin (1831-1877), rector of Chilton from 1857 until his death. It was designed by J.F. Bentley, the architect of Westminster Cathedral, and executed by Nathaniel Westlake.

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