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Notes 071 the Church of Rodhourne Cheney. 371 



inside look modern, and other parts have been very much re-faced. 

 The two two-light square-headed windows on the north and one 

 on the south were inserted in the 14th century. 



In the south wall there is an interesting double piscina, nearly 

 2ft. wide, with plain arch — the front half of the bowl is missing, 

 the drain remains intact. 



The south porch is a large one of late 13th century date, 

 measuring 12ft. x 10ft. on the inside ; the outer arch has a 

 pointed segment of two orders of cavetto with label dying on to a 

 moulded impost which forms the abacus of the attached angle 

 shafts of the jambs ; the outer order of the arch stops on the cap 

 and the inner is carried down. Over this, on the outside, is a 

 trefoil loop window, and, over this again, (of different kind of 

 stone,) a small niclie with trefoil head. In each side wall is a 

 single-light window with trefoil head. The inner doorway and 

 roof are modern. 



The chapel is of two bays, divided outside by a buttress of two 

 stages, and with diagonal buttresses at the angles ; it projects 

 2ft. 4in. beyond the south wall of the nave. The walls here, as in 

 the chancel, are without plinths, which occur only at the buttresses, 

 and no parapet remains. The east window is a pointed one of 

 three lights, and in the south wall are two three-light ones with 

 square heads ; also a piscina, the arch of which is an earlier one 

 of trefoil form, adapted. In the tracery of these windows there 

 are bits of 14th century glass which do not occupy their original 

 positions. The work of this chapel is of a good type of early 

 Perpendicular. 



The two windows in the south wall of the nave are pointed 

 ones of four lights with labels, of late Perpendicular, portions of 

 the coeval glass remain in the tracery — in one window a head 

 with nimbus ; the head of a female ; and two estoiles : in the 

 other two heads, each with nimbus ; two estoiles ; parts of an 

 inscription and of fleur-de-lys. 



Modern diagonal buttresses have been added to the chancel 

 (fortunately without disturbing the original quoins), and to the 

 south-west angle of the nave. The font is also modern. 



