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which is one having a stone panel with the sign of a tyler’s hammer 
(or, as local tradition has it, a butcher’s cleaver), and the initials 
and date re 1656. Adjoining it is a house with two good two- 
storied bays with stone mullions and a doorway with traces of 
having had an oriel over it; this house has fine chimney shafts set 
diagonally on the base, and is inscribed with the same initials as 
_ the other and with the date 1652.! 
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. Tue Cnurcu or S. Margaret, Srrarron St. Marcarer. 
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There is very little to be said about this Church. The Mr. 
: Browne quoted by Aubrey says of it :— 
“There is nothing very remarkable either ancient or moderne, only in the N. 
wall of the Church is an old niche, but without any monument. In a windowe 
on the South side, is the picture of St. Katharine with her wheele and another 
in the first columne, which I suppose to be St. Margaret the Tutelar saint of this 
Church.” 
Since this was written the window pictures have disappeared, 
yet the building bears evidence of having once possessed considerable 
beauty and interest; but I hardly know of any instance in which 
_ such qualities have been so reduced to barrenness and poverty by 
mutilation and misjudged restoration. Externally the Church has 
lost its gable copings and whatever parapets it possessed, whilst 
internally the old stonework has been scraped so that it is difficult 
' to distinguish it from a modern copy. 
The old parts which remain are the nave and north and south 
aisles of four bays, with south porch. The nave and aisles date 
from the latter part of the thirteenth century, but the north doorway 
__ —now blocked up—is a Norman one, which was doubtless built in 
| again at this period. The nave arcades are rather unusual—the 
: columns are slender cylindrical ones, with richly-moulded caps, in 
en? T am indebted to Mr. Bennett, of Newport, Mon., for the loan of the charming 
sketch of the latter house, here reproduced. 
