By C. H. Talbot, Esq. 363 
circular frame is original, with Decorated mouldings, but the in- 
serted stone-work is modern, nor do I know that it is a restoration 
of anything that existed there before. 
Under the north tower arch, across the entrance to the north 
transept,! stands a stone screen, with badges of the Hungerford 
family carved on it. The transept contained a chantry chapel of 
that family. There is a portion of a monument remaining in it, 
also bearing devices of the Hungerfords, which, from the mixed 
Gothic and Renaissance character of its ornament, appears to be 
of the time of Henry VIII. Other fragments of the same 
monument that were found here, when the church was restored, 
were removed to Farleigh Castle, and are preserved in the chapel 
there. There is a good Perpendicular window, in the east wall of 
this transept, and, in the north wall, a very extraordinary modern 
window, which I can only describe as a cross between Early English 
and Perpendicular. 
The nave exhibits a good deal of Perpendicular work, of a not 
very interesting character, and the side windows of the aisles are 
decidedly poor. I was told that they were a strict restoration, but 
the design seems hardly good enough to be worth reproduction. 
Possibly, limited funds may have prevented their being improved. 
In the chancel Mr. Butterfield has imtroduced a good deal of 
decoration, of the kind called “constructional polychrome.” Opinions 
will differ as to whether this is pleasing or not, but we know, at any 
rate, that nothing at all like it can have been there originally. The 
walls, in the thirteenth century, were as a rule decorated with 
painting, and decoration on the east wall of this chancel can never 
yhave been carried so high before, as the roof-space was always hidden 
by a ceiling, either at the base level of the triangle or a little above 
_ it. For my own part, I should have preferred to have seen the old 
walls unimproved, - 
1 This transept had been converted into a family vault, and was thrown open 
to the church at the restoration. 
