
When the Priory was sold off at the time of the Dissolution, the church remained largely intact and has remained in use as the Parish Church to the present day. The West Window is the earliest (more or less surviving) example of bar tracery in England (1227-1244). The structure began to fail in the 18th century and was bricked in in 1809, in order to strengthen it.

When the Priory was excavated in the 1930s, a great deal of stained glass was found, which invites speculation as to how the West Window might have looked originally with the light flooding in through it. The above detail from a board found in the church at least shows what the tracery might originally have looked like.
Sadly, the interior could really use some of that light.

Here’s an alternative view (several alternative views in fact): Postcards From…
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
Small Blue-Green World
ESET Senior Research Fellow