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The bits of shafts and an early coffin lid built in over the door point 
to the conclusion that a Norman Church stood on this site. 
The porch has the original roof and ogee inner doorway with the 
old hinges, but the outer doorway is new. The font is probably 
coeval with the Church. 
Cuurcy or S. Grecory. BErcKINGTON. 
This is a Church of the written history of which I know nothing 
but what has been given to us by Mr. Medley. I have nothing to 
add to this but what can be gathered from the stones of the building 
itself ; and from these we may trace many of the alterations which 
the Church has undergone, and which make it so extremely in- 
teresting. This interest has been well preserved in a very careful 
restoration. : 
In the first place I may say that we have here only the second 
piece of pure Norman work which we have seen during our ex- 
eursions, and it is somewhat remarkable that we should have 
journeyed for two days within our own county of Wiltshire and yet 
have to go over its berders to find any complete part of a Church 
older than the middle of the twelfth century. The tower of this 
Church is of Norman date for its full height, although it was 
re-modelled in the fifteenth century by adding angle-buttresses, 
staircase, and parapet, and by the insertion of the west window and 
the archway into the nave (which, by the way, is of the same 
panelled type as those we saw at North Bradley and Road), and 
by vaulting the lower stage in stone. 
It is not easy to account for the arch above the west window, but 
it is part of the original work, and at first sight it seems to suggest 
there having been some erection to the west of the tower, as at 
Netheravon, but the string below, and the absence of traces of the 
side walls contradict this, and the character of the arch is that of a 
relieving arch. There are also traces of windows in the north and 
south sides. Like many other Norman towers this appears to have 
had insufficient foundations, hence the necessity for the buttresses 
added in the fifteenth century and the somewat clumsy excrescence 
against the north wall. There are remains of the Norman work in 
