246 Downton and Britford Churches. 
to the site of the high altar, and it is suggested that it was used for 
viewing, from the chancel, an altar in the transept. Another hagio- 
scope was found in the north wall of the chancel, but was not left 
open. 
There is, in the churchyard, on the south side of the church, the 
fine and tall octagonal shaft of a cross,! set on circular steps: the 
cap of the shaft remains and appears to be of the fourteenth century, 
but the actual cross is gone: there is a head carved at the north-east 
angle of the base, the only angle that has been carved. 
Interments have been found on the vicarage premises, due north 
of the chancel : probably its site was formerly part of the churchyard. 
I am told that, in the house called the old parsonage, west of the 
vicarage, a medieval window was found with an ogee arch, but 
closed up again. 
Britrorp Cuvurcu.? 
[That portion of the following notes on Britford Church, which 
refers to the Saxon arches, formed in the main the substance of a 
letter written to the editor of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 
on the 30th of January, of the present year. It has since been 
printed in a condensed form in the Journal of the British Archzo- 
logical Association,? with slight additions, and is here reproduced 
almost verbatim. By permission of the Council of the Association, 
and with the consent of the artist, I am enabled to reproduce in 
these pages a photolithographic illustration of the north arch, 
which appeared in the Journal of the Association, vol. xxxil., p. 
497.] 
Britford Church is an aisleless cruciform building of moderate size, 
1 There is the base and part of the shaft of another cross in the street, opposite 
the ‘‘ White Horse” Inn: an inscription testifies that it was ‘‘ restored’ in 
1797: it is now greatly dilapidated: it may have been originally of the four- 
teenth century. 
2 This church was visited by the Society, on September 16th, 1870, before its 
restoration, and again on August 25th, 1876. 
S Vol. xxxiii., p. 345. 
