344 The Churches of Sherston, Corston, and Netheravon. 
pointed ; they are of two orders—the inner order being square and 
the outer enriched on the nave side only with the chevron mould, 
two of the arches having a roll on the angle coming at the inter- 
section of the chevrons. There are label moulds on the nave side 
of an unusual section—a kind of roll with a cavetto below; this 
indicates, more than any other feature of the arcade, the approaching 
change of style. The columns are cylindrical, the responds having 
demi-columns; all have moulded bases and square capitals with 
scallop ornament of a pattern varying with each. The arch opening 
into the chapel south of the nave is identical, with the exception 
that the carving is somewhat richer. Portions of the south wall 
of the nave are coeval with this, for the eaves corbel-table remains 
intact where it runs through the priest’s room, and Norman corbels 
are used to support the lean-to roof of the chapel, but they are 
probably not a situ. 
The existence of a Norman chapel in this position is remarkable, 
but it does not go far towards solving the problem of whether or 
not the Norman Church was cruciform. In any case there is now 
no trace of structural work of that period beyond the parts described 
above, while the remains of the weather tabling on the south face 
of the tower show that there was at any rate a south transept in 
the 13th century. 
At about 1230—40 the Church underwent a great re-modelling 
—the tower, chancel, and transepts were built and the north aisle 
widened, the whole work being characterised by great refinement 
and purity of detail. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful 
piece of Early English work of its kind than the lower stage of the 
tower, and it remains almost intact. All four arches are alike; 
although the walls are 4ft. 3in. thick the arches are of only two 
splayed orders, the inner one is unusually broad and supported on 
attached corbel-shafts about 2ft. 2in. long, having richly moulded 
caps with neck-moulds and double “bell”; one of the caps has a 
cable-mould. The shafts spring from carved heads, as follows :— 
The west arch—a king on south, and queen on north. 
North—on west, woman’s head with wimple; on east, a modern 
head. 
