By C. E. Ponting, FSA. 353 
The pulpit is a late Jacobean one of no great pretensions, but it 
is suitable, and has been in the Church for a long time. I was 
glad, therefore, to have been instrumental in frustrating a recent 
proposal to replace it by a modern one made for some other Church. 
Tue CuurcH oF ALL SAINTS. NETHERAVON. 
There are few Churches in Wilts which possess greater interests 
of a special kind than this, and its tower must take a high place 
in the list of early towers in this country, while it has features 
which cannot be claimed by any other, so far as my investigations 
have enabled me to judge. 
I first inspected it carefully in April, 1886, and some two years 
later I prepared the drawings now reproduced. 
The Church consists of a clerestoried nave of four bays, with 
north and south aisles, chancel, and western tower. A porch was 
erected at the east end of the south aisle late in the 16th century, 
to afford the lord of the manor separate access to the chancel. 
The tower is a remarkable structure. It is about 21ft. square 
at the base and 68ft. in height to the top of the parapet ; built of 
flint rubble, and has the (apparently) original plaster on the outer 
face, flush with the wrought quoins. The walls are vertical in- 
ternally, without batter or set-off; externally they batter slightly 
below, and also, apparently, above the set-off of 3in. which divides 
the tall lower stage from the upper. 
In the west wall is an archway (A) now forming the portal, 
which is the most striking feature. It is 7ft. 10in. wide between 
the jambs, and 15ft. high to the soffit, and there is no evidence of 
its ever having been intended to be blocked by doors, as at present. 
The arch is a round one, stilted, of one order of mouldings—a bold 
roll on each edge; the jambs consist of two simple half-columns 
on each, of equal size, with cushion capitals with volutes and rude 
incised sculpture—apparently a lion on one side and an ape on the 
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