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Sketch of the Parish of Tatesbury. 



was Norman, there was a south aisle as well, and one of its round 

 arches with the pillars supporting it, was disentombed from the 

 plaster which buried it, when the Church was restored in 1854 : the 

 font also is Norman, and an admirable example of good workmanship 

 of the period: it was well figured in the "Builder" in 1844, and 

 I have been fortunate in securing the wood-blocks for the embellish- 

 ment of this paper. Early in the thirteenth century the Church 



Section of the Font at Yatesbury. 



was re-built, and the pointed arches springing from pillars with 

 transitional or semi-Norman mouldings mark pretty accurately the 

 date of such work : there is also a small triplet window at the west 

 end of the north aisle, which was an extremely elegant specimen of 

 Early English work, till the masons, in restoring it ! chipped away 



