Externally (see Fig. 883) the building is provided with a buttress at each side of the east end, and another at right angles to it at the south-east angle. A similar buttress occurs on the south wall between the two south windows. These buttresses are all finished with acute gablets and fleur-de-lys ridges, and the string course and base are returned round them. [Illustration: FIG. 886.--Temple Church. Details of Windows.] [Illustration: FIG. 887.--Temple Church. Details.] The east window has a double splay on the jambs (Fig. 886), and the arch mouldings, which consist of bold rolls, partly filleted, die against the splays. The hood moulding has carved terminals, apparently of animals. The intersecting tracery is simple, and the mullions are splayed, and each aperture between the curved branches of the mullions contains a chamfered circle. There is no cusping. In the interior (see Fig. 885), the opening of the east window being wider than on the exterior, the arch is larger and the springing is lower. It is moulded with a large filleted roll, and has a hood (Fig. 887). The roll rests on a round moulded cap, which crowns the angle shaft of the sconsion. [Illustration: FIG. 888. Temple Church, Rear Arch of Side Windows.] The side windows have also arch mouldings, which die against the splays of the jambs (see Fig. 886), and the hoods are terminated with roses, or animals like lizards, much decayed. The tracery is simple, and the large circle over the central light is peculiar. The sconsions are plain, but the sconsion arches are segmental and moulded (see Figs. 885 and 888). The two lancet windows to the west have hoods terminated with roses, and the sconsion arches are segmental and moulded. Beneath the windows a filleted roll runs round the building as a string course, and one course below it is a broadly splayed base course, with a lower base under it (see Fig. 883). These mouldings only extend round the older part of the structure, the newer portion at the west end having a separate base of a different character. The east gable still retains its sloping cope, which has at the base a small gablet erected upon the skew putt, finished with a fleur-de-lys ridge. In the gable (see Fig. 883) over the east window there is a circular aperture, now blocked up; and on the apex there has been erected, in comparatively recent times, a plain bellcot, with pyramidal roof. On a stone at the base of the bellcot the following Roman letters have been run in with lead--viz., V Æ S A C, and below these, M I H M. Round the corner of the same stone, on the north side, are the similar letters R I. The meaning of these letters has not been explained. Possibly the stone has been brought from somewhere else, where the context might have rendered the letters intelligible.