378 The Church of S. Mary, Stapleford, Wilts. 



a parapet, for the outer cornice remains on the south side, enriched 

 by interesting little paterae widely spaced. The proportions of 

 the chancel arch are in keeping with those of the nave — it is of 

 two orders of chamfers, the inner supported on moulded corbels. 



The south aisle is very narrow, the Norman foundations doubt- 

 less having been utilised. There is a two-light window on each 

 side of the doorway, the westward one having a somewhat truncated 

 appearance. The west window is modern. The chapel projects 

 beyond the aisle and retains the original roof, with cornice and 

 plain parapet stepped and carried up the flat-pitched gable, and 

 two good gargoyles ; the builder of the chapel wished it to be 

 wider than the easternmost bay of the nave arcade, and he obtained 

 this by setting the arch which spans the aisle beyond the abacus 

 of the pillar, finishing it in a somewhat clumsy manner. The only 

 window in the chapel is a large pointed one of three lights in the 

 south wall and it will be noticed that this has several peculiarities; 

 the tracery is of a reticulated pattern, but it does not fit the arch, 

 and, but for its having been worked on the same stones, the tracery 

 might well be taken as having belonged to another window, and 

 badly adapted to this. The kneelers of the outside label, also, 

 are of different lengths, and the longer one is of a smaller 

 mould than the label itself. This has an inside drop arch ; under 

 the window, on the inside, is the low canopy of the founder's 

 tomb, an ogee arch of two broad fiat wave-moulds, without cusps. 

 Eastward of this is a coeval piscina with cusped arch. The outer 

 facing of the walls is of Hint and Chilmark stone in bands. 



The chancel is also of fine proportions ; the east end was ap- 

 parently rebuilt in 1869, but the old design has been preserved 

 and much of the stonework re-used. 



The east window is a four-light pointed one with moulded label 

 on outside ; in the south wall is a priest's door with two-light 

 window on either side of it having moulded inside arches and a 

 bit of original glass in one ; the plinth is stepped here, to follow 

 the slope of the ground. In the north of the sanctuary is a 

 two-light window like that on the south, and westward of it a 

 single lancet light. Under the east window on the outside is a 



