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The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



springs from semi-octagonal shafts. The roof, originally a plain 

 timber one, is now covered with plaster. It is proposed very 

 shortly completely to restore this part of the Church, 



The Nave i843ft.longby 21ft.broad. At the west end is a four-light 



decorated window with the tra- 

 cery formed of quatrefoils — an 

 arrangement commonly met 

 with in windows of this period. 

 A buttress on each side forms 

 a support to the wall, on the 

 summit of which is a double 

 gable of plain character con- 

 taining two small bells. 



There were anciently door- 

 ways both on the north and 

 south sides, but the former 

 has been blocked up. In ad- 

 dition to the west window 

 there are two others in the side 

 walls, each of two trefoil-head- 

 ed lights beneath a square 



Decorated Window in EtchBhampton Church. head At the east end OU 



either side of the Chancel-arch, is also a small trefoil headed light. 

 The angle-buttresses are low and massive ; that on the north-west 

 has on each of its sides a shallow niche with a decorated canopy, 

 an enrichment which was not bestowed on the other three. A 

 similar canopy, carved on the face of a large stone, and enclosing a 

 figure, apparently of the Angel Gabriel, (which seems to have 

 formed part of a group representing the Annunciation and perhaps 

 formed part of the reredos anciently over the altar), was discovered 

 in making a vault over the south-east angle of the nave in 1832, 

 and is now preserved in the interior of the Church. 



The Font. 



The Font, which stands nearly in the centre of the Nave, is of the 

 date of the Norman period, and consequently two centuries older 



