Tower.
Evidence for its existence:
1) It was usual with cruciform churches.
2) Massive crossing piers.
3) At the suppression, there were 6 bells: total weight 47 cwt - therefore needed a tower.
4) It was not a stone spire because no stones were found: they would have been left behind because they would have been a funny shape (WARD).
See Crossing.
*The existing remains or foundations show that a tower over the crossing was built or contemplated from the first (CLAPHAM).
*The tower was not built at the foundation (3 piers re-built c. 1350 when the Tower was built?) ‘During the 14th century, the piers of the crossing were reinforced, to strengthen the central tower or, possibly, to support a spire (D1990).
‘When cutting a drain across the tower area, many interments were met with, in each case without a coffin’ (H79).