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bases and a hood-moulding of Early English character, but two 
heavy circular mouldings in the arch itself, with the nail-head 
ornament, which nearly resemble Norman. There is evidence that 
there has been a low-side window, on the south side of the chancel. 
The tower arch is a plain one, apparently of the fourteenth century, 
but the piers on which it stands are square and rude, and I could 
not determine their date. There is an arch in the west wall of the 
tower, which has, I think, been a window-arch, and in that case the 
ehurch was probably entered by a side door, and had no west door 
when the tower was built. I take this window-arch and the tower 
in general, which has small lancet windows on its north and south 
sides, to be Decorated work of the fourteenth century. The spire 
is modern, erected in 1852. A house, which is said to have been 
the old manor house, almost touches the east end of the church. 
At Monkton Deverel there is a fine shield of arms of one of the 
Ludlow family, built into the front of a house in the street of the 
village, near the church, having been removed from elsewhere. It 
may be of the time of Elizabeth or James I. Underneath it is the 
motto “ Ruina prementi—Subeuntibus umbra.” 
Monkton Deverel Church has a Decorated western tower, with 
modern Perpendicular tracery inserted in the old window-arch, and 
a plain Norman font. The rest of the church has been rebuilt. 
Some interesting carvings, probably of the seventeenth century, 
have been worked into the pulpit. 
Kingston Deverel Church has a tower, which is in its visible 
features principally Decorated, with the upper part of the fifteenth 
century and considerably restored. This tower is placed between the 
nave and chancel of a church which never had transepts, and as such 
‘an arrangement is not uncommon in Norman churches, and as there 
undoubtedly was a Norman church on this site, it is presumed that 
the walls of this tower are to a certain extent the Norman walls, 
disguised by the builders of the fourteenth century. ~ There is, I 
believe, no direct evidence of this: the tower may have been rebuilt 
in the fourteenth century, retaining the original ground-plan, but 
it is perhaps more probable that the walls of the Norman tower 
were retained: it has now two Decorated arches, opening east and 
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