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exterior gives little promise of any antiquities within. However, on 
the first floor, there are, in two rooms, the remains of a fine room of 
the time of James I. The original room was even larger than the 
two rooms, into which it is now divided, taken together. There is 
a handsome ceiling of moulded plaster, and, from the abrupt manner 
in which this ceiling terminates, it may be seen that the front wall 
of the house has been actually set back, so that it is very fortunate 
that what remains has been so well preserved. There is a fine carved 
fireplace, bearing the arms of Moore of Heytesbury. Two original 
doorways of this room, and, I think, the doors themselves remain. 
The large Church! of Heytesbury is very interesting. It is 
cruciform, with a central tower, and aisles both to nave and chancel.” 
In the chancel we find work of two dates. The piers and responds 
of the arcade are transitional from Norman to Early English, with 
the exception of the west respond on the north side. This respond 
is of one work with the tower piers ® and arches, of a very fine type 
of Early English. It is evident that the arches of the arcades in 
the chancel cannot be earlier than this respond, upon which one 
of them rests, as they are all of the same character, and they, and 
the elegant clerestory that rests on them, may be taken to be of 
the same date as the tower piers. There is a large single lancet 
window at the east end. The windows of the clerestory of the 
chancel are small lancets. 
The nave, at first sight, looks like an Early English one, with 
Perpendicular alterations, but, on closer inspection, it will be found 
that, though the general effect is that of an Early English building, 
the mouldings are Decorated. The hood-moulding of the pier 
arches is the ordinary scroll-moulding. The arcades * are fine, and 
at the west ends of the aisles are circular windows, of which the 
1 This church is I believe still collegiate, but will in time cease to be so. 
? The chancel aisles which had been pulled down were rebuilt, and the arches 
which had been walled up re-opened, at the late restoration. 
8 Exclusive of course of a good deal of new work which has been introduced 
into them. : 
* The pillars of the naye have, I believe, been rebuilt. 
