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the tower arch, and the date 1660. Some of the beams that support 
it are older, with Perpendicular mouldings, and may perhaps have 
formerly belonged to the rood-loft. There is a brass to Elizabeth, 
wife of Thomas Carter, 1649, and a plaster ceiling of the seventeenth 
century, in the form of vaulting, under the tower. 
This church has been greatly disfigured by the rebuilding of the — 
nave, in 1724, on the old foundations, exclusive of its west wall and 
those of the aisles, which have not been rebuilt, but. are the old 
ones altered and spoiled. The new work of the nave would be en- 
tirely out of character with any medieval building, and its windows 
are extremely ugly. There are remains of the old pillars of the 
former nave beneath some of the modern ones. They are, I believe, 
of the fourteenth century. — 
The church stands in a situation where it would lock well if 
properly restored, but completely out of the town, and on that ac- 
count inconvenient for the inhabitants. 
St. Laurence’s Chapel! has been rebuilt, with the exception of 
the tower, in a modern Decorated style of no particular interest. The 
tower is old, of a late Decorated type, and much broader from north 
to south than from east to west. The west door? is four-centred, and 
there has been a pent-house in front of it, as is evident from the 
corbels that remain. The lancet window over this door has no 
doubt been altered to that form, and was probably previously cusped 
like the window in the stage above. The uppermost story of the 
tower is a Perpendicular addition, and the buttresses have mouldings of 
that style and may have been added. ‘The position of this chapel is - 
central,’ and from some points the tower has a picturesque appearance. 
In a yard, on the premises of the Warminster Atheneum, is a 
1 Originally built and endowed by a family of Hewitt, in the time of Edward 
III. (see a paper ‘‘on Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts,” by the Rev. Canon 
Jackson, in this Magazine, vol. x., p. 314). The greater part of the tower may 
have been built in that reign. . 
2 It is stated in Murray’s Handbook that the initials of Henry VII. are over 
this west door. I could not detect them, and should suppose the door to be 
earlier than the reign of that king. 
3]I add an ‘extract, put into modern spelling, from a ‘‘ Report of the Survey 
of all Colleges, Chantries, &c.,” taken February 14th, 1511 (published by the 
Rey. Mackenzie, E, C. Walcott, in this Magazine, vol. xii., p. 371), which is 
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