188 Notes on Ohurches visited in 1898. 
Castle Eaton Church consists of nave with north aisle, south 
porch, and western tower, chancel, and north chapel, with a crypt, 
or bone-hole, beneath. 
The earliest portions of the work here, as in many other cases, 
are the doorways of the nave, which, doubtless, owing to their 
elaboration and their being less influenced in their use by the 
changes of style in subsequent periods than is the case with 
windows, have been preserved. Both north and south doorways 
of the nave are of the late Norman period—eirca 1170—the former 
is a plain semi-circular-headed opening with label, and small 
chamfer on the arch carried down the jambs (this doorway was 
evidently re-built here when the aisle was thrown out). The south 
doorway, as usual, is richer in ornamentation—it has jamb shafts — 
with moulded bases and caps with circular necking and square i 
abacus. The arch has an inner order with small chamfer carried 
down the jambs and stopped by a leaf near the floor. The outer 
order has the chevrons and a roll mould, the label is moulded and 
ornamented with the ball ornament, and has “monster” terminals — 
similar to those at Malmesbury. 
The font is very little later than this. It has a circular bowl 
2ft. 6in. in diameter, with mouldings on the upper and lower edges, 
and a band of very early conventionalised foliage carried round 
the middle. This is, at present, supported only by a circular shaft 
of Yin. diameter, with base moulds standing on a moulded base; _ 
the shaft is out of all proportion to the bowl, but there were formerly 
four smaller shafts surrounding this. A close examination shows 
that the bowl and the base are not parts of the same font, although 
they each had the same arrangement of a central and four sur- 
rounding shafts, for the spacing of the small shafts on the base was 
llin. from centre to centre, and that on the bowl 16in. 
The re-building of the Church commenced with the chancel, 
which dates from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, and 
is very refined and interesting work. The east window is a triple 
lancet with trefoil heads, the central one being higher than the side, 
with chamfer and rebate on outside—these are contained within a 
semi-circular arch with chamfer on edge stopping near the sill, the 
