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burst, with an exceeding loud noise, like the firing of several cannons 
at once. They were both stunned, one had his watch-glass shivered, 
part of his money melted in his pocket, and his shoe split into several 
pieces.” 
The west end of the south aisle is called “ Beach’s Chapel,” from 
a family at West Ashton about 1610, but as that part of the church 
is much older, it is doubtful by what right they gave their name to it. 
An old font in the vicarage garden, of handsome work, is com- 
monly supposed to have come out of Steeple Ashton Church, but 
this was not so. It was bought by Mr. Hey, vicar, some years ago, 
from a stonemason at Seend, who had been making a new one for 
Bromham Church, and this came from Bromham.! 
1The present Font was placed by Rey. Richard Crawley (late Vicar) and his 
sisters to the memory of their mother. On it is this inseription :—‘‘o] Pietatis 
ergo in Matrem carissimam MARIAM CRAWLEY que viduitatis annis in hoc pago 
placidé et sancté peractis, Bathonice in fide Christi obiit xvic die Martii A°. 
Dom: mpcccxli° statis suze 1xxvi° et in cemeterio huic ecclesiz adjacente sepulta 
est, hoc Baptismi lavacrum sacris usibus dicant filius filizque superstites.”’ 
The chancel was rebuilt in 1853. The church windows were once filled with 
stained glass, of which many fragments remain. In one near the south en- 
trance is the device of a boar’s head often repeated. In others are figures of 
saints, evangelists, and angels, the Passion, &c. On the north side, on a stone 
corbel, is a merchant’s mark. The chancel east window was lately erected by 
R. P. Long, Esq., to the memory of his father, Walter Long, Esq. On the 
walls are tablets to some of the Long family: on one, a coat of arms, Long im- 
paling Wrey. On the floor was, a few years ago, a little brass, with the in- 
scription: ‘* Virgo quid loquitur, queris? Lege: ‘Tu morieris,’ Maria 
Carpenter.” © This was probably the daughter of Henry Carpenter, Vicar, 1636. 
Robert Beach, 1672, and Mrs. Grace Beach, 1685. Arms, vairé G. & A. ona 
canton a buck’s head cabossed, Beach: impaling within a bordure a fleur de 
_lys, Flower. Samuel Martyn of East Town, 1687. Arms, A. a double- 
headed eagle displayed gules. John, his son, 1714. 
In the north chancel, east end, is a large monument to Thomas Bennett, Esq., 
of Steeple Ashton and Combhay, 1728. Arms, Bennett impaling Yerbury. 
In the south aisle, Mrs. Ann Cary, 1772. Arms, Cary impaling Smith of 
Combhay. John Smith of Combhay,1775, and his wife Ann Tracy. Arms, Smith 
quartering Bennett, impaling Tracy. 
In the arch on the north side: Thomas Beach (son of Thomas Beach of 
West Ashton and Wolley) ; formerly Chief Justice in Jamaica, d.1774. Arms, 
quarterly Beach and Turner; on an escutcheon of pretence, Hynes quartering 
Guthrie. At the west end, Lt. Col. Thomas de la Beche, 1801. John Hynes 
de la Beche, 1803. Thomas Beach, West Ashton, 1729. Miss Grace his 
