852 Architecturat Notes of the Warminster Meeting. 
west. In the font, which is modern, are worked in the Purbeck 
marble shafts of the old font, which show that it was one of those 
which were supported by a central and four smaller shafts. The 
only ancient part of the building that remains, besides the tower, 
is a late Decorated arcade, of two arches, which opens from the nave 
into a chapel on its south side. I understand that this chapel, before 
the restoration, had Decorated windows with square heads. It is 
now rebuilt is the same style with the rest of the church, which is 
a handsome modern building of Decorated character, which however 
in no way exemplifies what the ancient church may have been. In 
the chancel there is a fine male effigy, of Early English character, 
either of the time of John or Henry III. It was headless, and has 
been “restored”’! by the addition of a new head, which archzologically 
speaking is a pity. 
Over the principal south door, within the porch, is a “ vesica 
piscis,”? with a wreath of carved ornament, which latter, as it is 
vouched for as ancient, can only be of the fourteenth century, as it 
is profusely ornamented with the ball-flower. Otherwise, it has been 
so cleaned that it might be supposed to be modern. The monogram 
IHS, in the vesica, is of course of modern insertion, and I understand 
that in this space there was previously evidence remaining of there 
having been a figure. 
The nave was probably aisleless until the addition of the Decorated 
south chapel. In the pulpit are worked up some carved wooden 
panels, of Flamboyant character, which are probably of foreign 
workmanship. 
Woodlands, near Mere, formerly a manor house of the Doddington 
family, and now a farm house, is of great interest. The oldest part 
is a building of two stories, to the north, the upper part of which 
has been achapel. This building was originally of the fourteenth 
1The feet also have been ‘restored,’ but I believe the original feet were 
recovered since this was done, and have been preserved. 
2 The Rector, the Rev.Preb. D. M.Clerk, informs me that thereis evidence of this 
being a Norman *‘ vesica,” altered in the fourteenth century, which [ could not 
have discovered without his information. If so, it is a very curious transtorm- 
ation, and would be consistent with the builders recasting the character ct the 
church in the style of their own day. 
