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was carried on four corbels with carved heads, whilst the corbels in 
the south transept are plain. All roofs throughout the Church are 
new. 
The position of the turret staircase is placed so as to be available 
for access to the upper stages of the tower, and also to the rood-loft ; 
and in re-building the chancel the position of the exit door has very 
properly been retained. This turret is carried up on the outside 
above the tower, and capped with a spire, making a most picturesque 
feature. 
The jambs of the west window of the nave are carried down to 
the ground inside, and the filling-in below the window sill, with the 
door, are of later date; in making this alteration it was apparently 
intended to erect a porch, for the bases on the outside are returned, 
but the intention was probably never carried into effect. The 
_ position of the north and south doorways, so far eastward in the 
aisles, is unusual—that on the south was fixed by the older porch, 
which came, perhaps, about in the centre of the original Church 
(supposing it to have been without a central tower), whilst I think 
that on the north may be also accounted for. Before I visited this 
Church I was quite expecting to find that the great work which 
had within a comparatively recent time been carried out in the 
neighbouring parish of Edington, had made its influence felt here ; 
and whilst my expectation was not realized as regards the details of 
mouldings, arches, and tracery (which had kept pace with the 
changes which had taken place during the forty or fifty years which 
intervened), I attribute one or two peculiarities in the general 
arrangement of the design to the noble example which the builders 
had before their eyes; and I cannot help thinking it is this that led 
to the placing of a doorway in such an unusual position in the north 
aisle; but while its use as the monks’ entrance at Edington is 
manifest, no such reason can be assigned for it here. Then, the 
adoption of the cruciform plan in so small a Church must, surely, 
be more the result of example than necessity ! 
The bowl of the font is Norman, and probably coeval with the 
earlier Church, parts of which we have noticed as still remaining ; 
and the base is of the date of the re-modelling of the Church, 
