By Rev. Chr. Wordsivorth, M.A. 197 



Angel." Mr. Pouting dates the St. Katharine's chantry-house 

 about 1410. It has an interesting oak beam and, at the ])ack, a 

 later Tudor stone doorway. In the chamber upstairs is an elegant 

 carved stone fireplace of the 15th century. 



We have records in old wills of sundry obits at St. Peter's :— 

 Ilo. Somerfield, 1518. Eo. Nuttyng, 1526. Ja. Moore, a tenement 

 in Newbury Street, 1546; and J. Loder's and J. Winter's, each 

 endowed with a tenement in the Baily Ward. That " Our Lady's 

 service in Seynt Peter's Church " existed also, we learn from the 

 inventory of 15th June, 1548 (Wilts), No. 34. 



I have said that you can see no trace whatever of the early 

 English or Norman Church which once stood here— from the place 

 where you now sit. There are, I believe, just two remnants of 

 that older church to be found by searching. On the outside of 

 tlie nave at the north-west, where the aisle grows narrower, you 

 may find a piece of some yards superficies of rough wall partly 

 composed of flint with a fragment of red tile or brick, which looks 

 as if it must have belonged to the earlier building. And within 

 the chancel, where you observe the 15th or early 16th century 

 sedilia-arch and plain gabled recess in the south wall of the 

 sanctuary, when you approach the latter more closely, you will 

 observe, what Mr. Pouting has pointed out to me, that the little 

 gabled aumbry has had an earlier piscina or aumbry arch (carved 

 perhaps about 1370) clapped on to the wall in front of it by Wyatt, 

 to give it a double depth. Tlie iron pins for the hinges of an 

 oaken door are still sticking in the edge of the opening, so I suppose 

 it was an aumbry, or a piscina and aumbry combined. It now 

 serves as a credence shelf. 



It will be observed that the N.W. pinnacle on the tower is less 

 slender than the other three, being rounded somewhat like a rifle- 

 bullet. 



This irregularity may have been due to a re- building of the 

 pinnacles in 1701, as recorded on a tablet in the porch. The south 

 pinnacle was repaired also in 1762. There was work done at the 

 "pynnakels," also at an earlier date— 1576— 8 at the cost of the 

 sale of the pre-reformation organ-pipes. I accept the statement 



