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when the chancel and aisles were built, as also the similar one between 
the north aisle and chapel. 
The font is a very fine example of Perpendicular work. It is of 
large size and octagonal, the four cardinal panels have the emblems 
of the evangelists, and the diagonal sides are enriched with those 
of the Passion. The porch has had its roof altered in pitch, but 
the original can be traced. 
The Church has a noble tower, well designed and substantially 
built, with the stair-turret well pronounced and carried up for the 
full height. The buttresses have diagonal shafts continued above 
the top weathering, as though intended to carry pinnacles, but they 
end in grotesque gargoyles at the cornice level in a very abrupt 
manner. The angle pinnacles have been lost. 
In a glass case in the vestry are an ancient chalice and paten of 
pewter, the former much crushed, perhaps of the fourteenth century, 
which were found during the restoration of the Church in 1863 in 
a coffin formed out of a hollowed tree, under the arch on the south 
side of the chancel. 
[15th June, 1548. Amongst the list of chantry furniture bought 
(in one lot) by Thomas Chafyn, of Mere, are the following :— 
The Chauntre in the parish of North Bradley. 
Imprimis—A chalyce of sylver waying viii ownce 
Item. One old torn vestment of dornysse 
» One altar cloth of no valewe xij4, 
» One corporas with j old case 
» One bell waying half a hundred 
The vestments do not seem to have been of such great value that 
we need regret the evident bargain made by Mr. Chafyn, but it 
would be interesting to know what the bell was—perhaps thesanctus.] 
Roap CuurcH. 
This Church appears to have heen built all at one time (about the 
middle of the fifteenth century), excepting the tower, which is 
somewhat more debased. The plan consists of nave with clerestory, 
north and south aisles, western tower, and chancel with north chapel. 
