16 TJie Ilistory of the Parish of All Cannings. 



swinging a censer, und underneath the monogram fH (for the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary), with the legend **^lje plrilA SVatta 

 390ltttntt!G( trrtllU,** the figure or subject beneath it having been, 

 destroyed. On the south side we have the initials I. B., of which 

 we shall say more hereafter. The date of the original transepts 

 may have been about the middle of the fifteenth century. The 

 roofs of both transepts were originally gabled ; but that of the 

 south transept, on the addition of this chantry chapel, when the 

 ornamental parapet which distinguishes this part of the building 

 was carried round it, was lowered in pitch. 



The ToTVER, of three stages, is a plain but substantial erection 

 of the perpendicular period, and is, like the transepts, to be attri- 

 buted to the middle of the fifteenth century. It possibly superseded 

 an older tower which, having fallen into decay, was perhaps re- 

 constructed at the same time that the transepts were added, for it 

 seems difficult to believe that the turret stair-case, now enclosed 

 within the north transept, was not at one time outside the church. 

 It rests on four pointed arches, each of two chamfered orders, but 

 without shaft or capital. In the upper stage are four openings, 

 each with a pointed arch and central mullion. From the squinches 

 or arches thrown across the angles, it would seem that the tower 

 was originally intended to carry a spire. The parapet is quite 

 plain, without either battlements or pinnacles. On the north side 

 is the stair-case turret, square in form, rising to the same height 

 as the tower, and also terminating with a plain parapet. The 

 lower portion, which is enclosed within the north transept, anciently 

 served as a communication between the church and roodloft, the 

 doorway which opened into the latter being still visible in the wall. 



The Bells, five in number, bear the following inscriptions : — 



1. A. R. ifi 6261 : IN : IM : OD : oif : KA 4« * 



2. Thomas Andrews, William Maslcn, Cbiu'chwai-dens, 17T1. 



3. >|f AN : NO : DO : MI : NI. 1626 tif» A 



4. James Wells, Aldbourne, Wilts, fecit 1806. Henery Hitchcock and 

 William Hayvrard, Ch-wardens. 



Tenor. EobertMaieslen, William Stevens, Churchwardens, 165S. A W A P A 

 (Diameter 3ft. Tin.) 

 Above is a small bell 14 inches in diameter, with date 1629. 



•These letters have become reversed in easting. The inscription is "Akso Domini, 16'2(!, A. B." 

 The last two letters are most probably the initials of the caster, Absl [or Abkabam] Buohall. 



