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generally the same pink colour of the mortar and also small frag- 
ments of broken brick. In the third arch I could not detect the 
original mortar at all. 
As I mentioned above, all the rest of the ancient work is Decorated, 
of the fourteenth century, with the exception of an altar-tomb and 
canopy, and some old wood-work in the chancel, which are Perpen- 
dicular. The nave is lit by a series of two-light windows, at a high 
level, in the side walls, the authority for the design of which was 
given by some stones of a window near the porch, remaining 7 situ. 
The high level of these windows was a necessity owing to the fact 
that the Saxon arches were not removed but only blocked. The west 
window I believe to be entirely new. The chancel is, I should say, 
a little later than the nave owing to the prevalence of the ogee 
curve in the heads of the windows. The tower arches are of the 
same period, perfectly plain, and springing from the walls without 
shafts or corbels. There is a piscina in each transept, implying the 
. former presence of an altar, and in the west wall of the south tran- 
sept there is a horizontal squint through which the altar in that 
transept could be viewed from the exterior of the church. There 
are several squints' of that shape in the neighbourhood of Salisbury. 
The north window of the north transept is modern, introduced before 
the late restoration, of Decorated character, but not in accordance 
with the original Decorated work of the church. 
I am told that there is authority for the restoration of all the win- 
dows in the chancel, the tracery of the east window having been found 
blocking up a window on the north side, so that though we have a 
good deal of new work we have in effect the design of the old 
chancel. There is a low-side window on the south side, and there 
was another on the north side, which has been removed, as a new 
vestry has been added there, and the place of the window is occupied 
by an arch of communication with the chancel. The sedilia and 
piscina are curiously contrived in the sill of the easternmost window 
- 1One, in West Harnham Church, is to the best of my recollection in a similar 
position, but opening from a porch into the transept. There are also squints of 
such a form, but fur other uses, in at last two of the Canons’ houses in the Close 
q of Salisbury. 
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