176 Fragments of the Parochial History of Avebury. 
skin would make such a nice present for my father.” And the 
incident which I have above recorded is most interesting, as 
betraying the same spirit of filial piety surviving to the very close 
of his father’s life. 
I am, 
Avebury Vicarage, Yours truly, 
Feb, 23rd, 1866. Bryan Kine. 
Fragments of the Parochial History of Avebury. 
By the Rev. Bryan Kine, Vicar. 
Tue CHurRcH. 
feevHE present piers and arches, dividing the nave from the 
Sis aisles, were substituted for Norman work (the remains of 
which in some very delicate capitals and shafts still exist), in the 
year 1811; the present work was executed by a Mr. Button, 
builder of Calne, and was probably copied by him from some of 
Inigo Jones’ “improvements” in Calne Church. But there was 
a peculiarity in the structure then removed which I have never 
seen in any other church; this will be better understood from the 
following sketch than from any mere description of it. (See plate.) 
The continuous lines in the above sketch represent the existing 
remains, whilst the dotted lines represent a restoration of the 
original work as described to me by Mr. Chivers, our aged parish 
clerk, who has always taken a very intelligent interest in the 
church, and whose memory is most accurate. It will be seen from 
this restoration, that the aisles were shut out from the nave by 
seven feet six inches of solid stone-work between the two arches, 
whicn served as the only communication; and it was, doubtless, 
with a view of partially remedying the inconvenience hence arising, 
that large hagioscopes were formed from the east end of each aisle 
into the chancel; that of the north aisle being of unusual size, and _ 
forming in fact a passage similar to the one in the north aisle of 
Hilmarton Church. These openings between the aisles and the 
chancel answered their purpose so long as the chief religious interests 

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