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N. aisle. The wooden roof of the nave is good 15th century 
work, to which date the rest of the architecture belongs, with the 
exception of the tower which is late Norman, as shown by the 
fine stone pannelled belfry windows. Indications of Norman 
work having been utilised in the 15th century appear everywhere 
in the walls (which are left in their rough state, a cold look 
being the vesult), especially in a pretty piece of pannelling on 
the outside of the S. wall. Some good herring-bone work, coeval 
with the tower, is seen at the base of the 8. wall of the chancel, 
also in the vestry. The N. porch has been considerably altered, and 
the present wooden roof lowered in Perpendicular times as there 
are evident traces of a room or parvise chamber having formerly 
existed above. Two curious Perpendicular corbels supporting the 
roof are seen on the inside of the N. aisle projecting on each side 
of the window jambs. A Sanctus Cote is on the outside at the 
junction of the chancel with the nave, and a curious angular 
buttress built against the middle of the N. wall of the tower 
between the two flat Norman buttresses, probably for support at 
some later period. Attention was directed to the following 
epitaph on a plain tombstone in the churchyard at the S. E. end 
of the church, stated by the Rev. Wynter Plathwayt, present 
Rector of Dyrham, to have been erected by his uncle :-— 
A. 8. B, died 14th Jan., 1840, aged 10 days. 
The cup of life, just to her lips she prest ; 
Found its taste bitter, and denied the rest. 
Averse then turning from the light of day, 
She softly sighed her little life away. 
Another version— 
Just to her lips the cup of life she prest ; 
Found the taste bitter, and refused the rest, 
Then gently turning from the face of day 
She sweetly sighed her little life away. 
Mr. Medley asked whether the author was Southey? The 
