122 Congress of British ArcTicRological Association at Devizes. 



■ " The addition of side aisles and the cutting away of the basement 

 of the staircase tui'ret, is stated to have taken place in the fifteenth 

 century; the residence of Duke Humphrey in the castle having 

 given an impetus to ecclesiastical architecture. To the same period 

 is also attributed the alteration of the windows of the transepts. 



" On the north and south of the chancel are two private chapels, 

 both of Late Perpendicular character, the more florid being at- 

 tributed to Beauchamp, who held the town and castle for Edward 

 IV. : the other is stated to have been built by Richard Coventry. 

 On the moulding of the window of that on the north side traces of 

 lettering were found, decipherable on one side of the window, which 

 contained the sentence, ' Orate P Bono Statu Ricardi Lamb.'' 

 There was formerly an altar here, and in the decoration of the chapel 

 the device of a rudder was used, found also in other Wiltshire 

 Churches : the roofs of the chapels are of oak admirably carved. 

 On the exterier of the south chapel the buttresses are highly de- 

 corated, and the embattled parapet ornamented with square panels, 

 containing quatrefoils and a row of Tudor roses. 



" The Norman nave has almost entirely disappeared, though on the 

 east wall, which is, of course, part of the Norman tower, there 

 remains a patch of diaper-work. I should add also that the abacus 

 of the capitals of the tower pillars is ornamented with triangular 

 indentations, like the impression of the point of a ti'owel on clay or 

 mortar : and all the arches show foliage and zigzag mouldings." 

 • Dr. BuRGES then stated that he proposed to open the lantern of 

 the tower, and so reveal the beautiful Norman arcading in the upper 

 part, now hidden by a lath-and-plaster ceiling; he also mentioned 

 other alterations contemplated. The registers (he said) commence 

 in October, 1559: the overseers' book in 1613: the churchwardens* 

 book in 1762. The Church plate is of no interest, and for the in- 

 scriptions on the eight bells the reader is referred^to a former volume 

 of the Magazine^ There is one monumental brass of ancient date, 

 that of John Kent, A.D. 1630.2 



Mr. LoFTUS Brock, F.S.A., said Dr. Burges deserved their thanks 

 1 Vol. ii., p. 350. 

 ^ See Kite's Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire, p. 85. 



