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Architectural Alotes 
On soME oF THE BUILDINGS VISITED BY THE SOCIETY, DURING THE 
LATE WARMINSTER Mzetine, AuGust 22ND, 23RD, AND 247TH, 1877. 
By C. H. Tatzor, Esa. 
G =2HE following notes do not pretend in any case to be an 
Z¥S exhaustive account of the buildings noticed, but I have 
thought it better to put on record, though in an imperfect form, the 
considerations that suggested themselves to me when I visited the 
spots, whilst they are still comparatively fresh in my memory, than 
to delay them further with a view of producing a more complete 
account at a later date. 
In Warminster itself the old buildings are not of great interest. 
The Parish Church is of a good size, cruciform, and with a central 
tower. The transepts and the greater part of the tower are of the 
fourteenth century, Decorated work. The tower arches are massive. 
The only original Decorated window that remains is in the north 
wall of the north transept. It is late in the style, of three lights, 
with ogee heads to them. ‘The transepts are much modernised, but 
retain their original arches of communication with the aisles of the 
nave. That in the south transept gives an interesting example of a 
female headdress, on a corbel. In the same transept a Decorated 
piscina remains in the south wall. The chancel retains a Perpen- 
dicular roof, plastered over. On the south side of the chancel is a 
Perpendicular Lady Chapel! which has been a good deal modernised. 
The corbels that supported its original roof remain, but the present 
roof is modern. This Lady Chapel communicates by a panelled 
arch with the south transept. 
The upper and lower doors of the staircase to the rood-loft remain 
in the north transept, by the north-east angle of the tower. In the 
same transept is a gallery, with an elaborately carved front under 
1Said to have been built by the Mauduit family, in the time of Henry VII, 
