18 Notes on the Churches 
perhaps prolonged, example of the method employed in building the 
Churches of the early Middle Ages. 
There are here, as in most cases, many subsequent alterations and 
additions. At the west end the last hays of the nave arcades were 
shortened, probably early in the fourteenth century, for the erection 
of the tower. At that time the tower appears not to have had the 
aisles continued past it as at present; these were added and the side 
arches cut through some fifty years later. Traces of a coeval arch 
may be seen in the east wall of the tower, over the present one. 
Buttresses were built on the outside to resist the thrust of 
these arches, and as it was probably found that the east wall 
was giving way under the increased weight a new arch was 
constructed within the previous one, and arches were built across 
the aisles. A staircase for access was at the same time carried up 
on the south side, forming a clumsy block on the interior, The 
tracery of the west window has been renewed. 
The next addition was the Dauntsey Chapel, erected outside the 
south aisle, opposite the transept, about 1430. It is probable that 
this chapel did not originally communicate with the Church, for the 
present archway between it and the aisle is an elliptic one of 
Elizabethan character, built of chalk or clunch, the soffit being 
enriched with an ornament formed by four Ds united within a square 
panel; the same device appears in some post-Reformation glass in 
the west window here, which has been made up together with older 
glass in which the chalice appears. It is doubtless intended as the 
initial of either the Dauntsey or Danvers family, or both, for they 
were united at this time. The former entrance to the chapel was 
by a doorway in the west wall, now built up. An arch is carried 
across from this chapel to support the clerestory. 
There is a Perpendicular recessed tomb, with the effigy of an 
unknown individual, and good later monuments which have been 
described by the Vicar. 
The last addition to the plan was the Beckett Chapel, erected on 
the south side of the chancel towards the end of the fifteenth 
century—about 1480. This must have been a richly-ornamented 
work. The windows are all square-headed, but well traceried; the 
