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yard attracted the attention of the members. On it was the 
record that “Reuben Horsall, Parish Clerk and Antiquary, fell 
asleep Jan. 1727 ;’ honourable mention by the appreciative hands 
of the Vicar of an antiquary who in his day resented the ruthless 
destruction of these grand old stones. Mr. King was evidently at 
home in his own Church, and pointed out how formerly the N, 
and S. aisles were divided off from the Nave by low Norman 
arches, traces of which were seen in remains of shafts with 
Norman capitals on either side, replaced since then by arcades 
and piers of Inigo Jones pattern, somewhat similar to those 
at Calne Church. The Norman Font, composed of coarse Oolitic 
stone, was ornamented with scroll work round the rim and rudely 
interlacing round arches cut in relief, which gradually left the 
perpendicular until on one side they looked, as the Vicar said, like 
a badly-written schoolboy’s copy. On the east face was a figure of 
an ecclesiastic, with a pastoral staff in one hand and an open book 
in the other, treading on a winged dragon or serpent. Mr. King 
informed the members that one of the junior Masters of 
Marlborough had sketched a sister font at the Cathedral of Treves, 
and Mr. Talbot suggested that the figure might represent St. James 
Bp. of Jerusalem, to whom this Church was dedicated. Passing 
through the roughly cut “squint” which might be of 15th century- 
work, the Decorated windows in the Chancel were much admired ; 
the enlarged one on 8. gave rise to discussion; Mr. Talbot 
considering it might have been the work of the Perpendicular 
time in imitation of Decorated work; Mr. King thinking it 
of very much Jater date. After examining the outside, especially 
the hood moulding, the general conclusion was that Mr. Talbot’s 
conjecture was right. On the E. wall of the Chancel a brass 
tablet records the death of a member of the Truslow family in 
1593. And a portion of 15th century open wood work attached 
high up on the W. wall of the Chancel indicates that a screen 
formerly ran across the Nave below. To the W. of the Church 
stands an old Manor House, gable-ended and picturesque ; the 
