By C. H. Talbot, Esq. 349 
earved stone slab of the fourteenth century, of good workmanship 
and worthy of being drawn. It may probably have been the 
front of an altar-tomb.' It is panelled, and bears three shields of 
arms and two helmets with crests, in good preservation. It was 
found, in two pieces, in pulling down a building on this site, in 
which it had been used as old material, and is now built into the 
face of a wall for preservation. 
The excursion of August 23rd took the Members first to Long- 
bridge? Deverel. On approaching the church, from Warminster, a 
fragment of an old wall appears on the left, close to the road, which 
is said to have belonged to the former manor house, which stood 
near the church and to the north-west of it. 
Longbridge Deverel Church consists of a nave with aisles, a 
western tower, and a chancel with aisles or chapels. The oldest part 
is the north arcade of the nave which is Norman, having square 
piers and round arches. The font also is Norman with some rather 
good ¢ carving. The south arcade of the nave appears to be of the 
curious as 1s showing that the grievance due to the distant situation of the parish 
church was felt even before that time. ‘* There is a Chapel called St. Laurence 
Chapel, standing in the middle of the town, wherein the inhabitants found a 
priest to sing for the ease of them, because the parish church [is] a quarter of 
a mile out of the town, and converted all the lands atore-written in Warminster to 
that purpose, and bear the rest of his wages of their own purses.” Ibid, p. 383. 
1 The Rev. J. Baron suggests as a possible explanation of this work, subject 
to correction by further research, that it may have been carved by a foreigner, 
or other person ignorant of English heraldry, between 1327 and 1387, and that 
the carvings, in the five panels into which the slab is divided, may be intended 
to represent—in the central panel, probably the coat of the deceased commemo-~ 
rated by the tomb (on a chevron, between three leopards’ faces, three mullets) 
—in the panel to the left of this, a coat intended apparently for the lions of 
England, but wrongly carved, two above one, and passant to the sinister side 
of the shield—in the panel on the extreme left, the cap and crest of Edward 
IlI., a lion gardant but not crowned, with small obliterated shield placed 
obliquely beneath the cap—in the panel immediately to the right of the central 
panel, the four lions rampant of Queen Philippa, of Hainault—and in the panel 
on _the extreme right, a cap with lion’s head as crest, with small obliterated 
shield placed obliquely as on the leit. 
- 2 Said to derive its name from a bridge, supposed to have been built by the 
Abbots of Glastonbury. More probably, it may mean the long town. I have 
adopted the spelling Deverel, instead of the more usual Deverill, following the 
Rey. Canon Jones, in his ‘‘ Domesday for Wiltshire,” and this Magazine, vol. 
xiy., p. 162, 
