36 The Church of All Saints. The Leigh. 
prepared of the whole of the old building, with full details of 
the various worked parts, in which every stone and joint were 
shown. Before any pulling down was begun the whitewash was 
carefully scaled off the face of the inside plastering in search for 
mural decorations—the only evidences of medieval work we found 
in this way were drawings of two human feet, about one-third 
larger than full size, in brown outline, on the south wall of the 
nave, but the removal of the tower exposed a very perfect bit of 
late thirteenth century work in imitation of the joints of masonry ~ 
—the joints in yellow with a thin chocolate line on either side, and 
the blocks filled in with stems terminating in a pointed trefoil leaf 
with a plum-coloured flower of five petals in the centre of each 
block. Besides these there were the Lord’s Prayer, the Decalogue, 
and numerous texts of Scripture, in panels, with elaborate scroll 
mantling. A record of the doing of this was thus written by the 
painter on the south wall of the nave :— 
“This Chancel 
was ornamented in the year 
of our Lord mpccexxvi 
JoHN TUCKER 
Joun Lares Church 
Wardens 
William Waggary, 
Swinpon Feb. 
Mpcexxvi.” 
Careful coloured tracings were made of these, and after that had 
been done the fittings were removed, the timbers of the roof and 
tower marked, and the demolition and re-construction carried out. 
with great care by the builders, Messrs. Light & Smith, of Chippen- 
ham. The roof of the porch was removed without being taken 
apart. In the re-construction the porch was put on the north side 
to meet the exigencies of the new site; the displaced tracery of the 
fourteenth century window on the south side of the nave replaced ; 
the gallery and a nineteenth century window omitted; otherwise 
the nave, tower, and porch of the Church stand on the new site 
exactly as they did on the old one, every wrought stone and every 
timber retaining its former position. 
