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Alotes on the Churches bisited by the Society 
in 1890. 
By C. E. Pontine, F.S.A. 
[For St. John’s and St. Mary’s, Devizes, see Wilts Mag., vol. ii., p. 213 ; 
for Potterne, vol. xvi., p. 274.] 
S. Mary’s. Market Lavinerton. 
(C HE plan of this Church consists of nave with north and south 
A) aisles, south porch, western tower, and chancel, with a 
sacristy on the north side of the latter, all ancient. 
That a Norman Church stood here is shown by the pieces of stone 
ornament, including the chevron and billet moulds of that period, 
which are built into the walls of the porch and outside of the east 
end of the nave—these were found during the restoration of the 
Church in 1862. . 
There is also a distinct and interesting feature of the same date 
—though it does not occupy its old position—the bowl of a stoup, 
now in the vestry and forming a piscina. The narrowness of the 
south aisle also indicates an early foundation. 
The nave and aisles were apparently re-built very early in the 
fourteenth century—the period to which I assign the south arcade 
and two bays of that on the north (both having square piers on 
chamfered bases), also the door and west and east windows of the 
north aisle and the lower part of the walls of the south aisle. It 
will be observed that the westernmost arch of the north aisle was 
formed at a later date, the inner order of the chamfered arch does 
not die out on the face of the piers as in the case of the rest, but is 
carried down to the bottom of the respond on one side, and corbelled 
out against the pier on the other. The stop on the pier was then 
worked to match the earlier one on the other angles, but no such 
stop occurs on the respond. 
