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dimensions to those on the eastern side. The whole space over 

 the tombs on the south side is occupied by a fine window^ the 

 geometric tracery of the upper portion of which consists of a 

 rose, or wheel, with eight radiating arms, which, dividing, 

 inclose sixteen equalateral compartments. This window has 

 lost something of its true character, having been " improved " 

 in 1842. Previously, a transom extended quite across it on 

 the line of the springing of the arch, and the four mullions of 

 the lower division of the window ran up into this transom; 

 thus indicating, I beheve, the late character of this fourteenth 

 century work, and its near approach to the Perpendicular style. 

 The side buttresses, already mentioned, stand but three feet 

 apart, and from these, at 18 feet above the floor line, spring 

 stone arches, which support a roof formed of slabs of stone. 

 It would add greatly to the interest of this building if this 

 stone roof were again brought to view externally. From some 

 cause it was found needful to cover it in with a roof of ordinary 

 stone tiling, and the probable time when this was done may be 

 gathered from the early churchwarden's accounts belonging to 

 this parish, in which, under date, 1578, occur the following 

 entries. " Payed for . . . xxx dayes work to the tylor for 

 "tylynge Ansleyes chapell, xxs. . . ." "To the mason . . for 

 " the water tablinge of Anslowes chapele and the bynche of the 

 "porch x\gs. iiijd." The name Ansloes Chapel, by which this 

 south transept is thus spoken of, and by which it is yet known 

 to some of the old inhabitants of the parish, is derived from the 

 circumstance that a chantry was established at Minchinhampton 

 by a person named Ansloe ; the foundation deed of which 

 FosBuooKE states, may be seen in the roll of patents of the 

 12 Edward III. Sir Egbert Atktns, probably misled by this 

 name, ascribes the erection of this south transej)t to " one 

 "A1NSI.0E, whose statue," he writes, "lies there cross-legged, 

 *^with a sword and shield, and his wife at his feet." Rudder 

 follows Atktns in this statement, but Bigland says: — "In the 

 "reign of Richard II., 1382, Sir John de la Mere, and Maud, 

 " his wife, rebiult the south transept. Under the great window 

 " are two arcades, with the recumbent effigies of the founders, as 



