254 Notes on the Churches 
Perpendicular windows have a very peculiar type of tracery and 
the labels have long terminals returned into the wall, the reveals 
are carried to the floor and form seats inside. 
The cusping of the early west window has been eut away. A 
piscina in the east respond of the arcade here doubtless indicates 
the chantry chapel of S. Mary, S. Katherine and S. Margaret, in 
which Robert de la Mere, a relative of William Beauchamp, of 
Bromham, Lord §. Amand (and the sire of Richard, whose work 
we saw at All Cannings yesterday,) ordered his body to be buried— 
he died in 1457. The staircase to the rood-loft starts from this 
chapel, but it is a fifteenth century insertion, as indicated by its 
door areh and the little trefoil window—the stairs are in perfect 
preservation: the passage is only 18in. wide, and affords one further 
support to my contention that these staircases were not, in village 
Churches, intended for the use of the priest. 
The tower is a good and notable example of early fifteenth century 
work. It has buttresses standing square with its sides, and is 
entirely without strings to divide it into its three stages. The 
west window and door are treated as one feature, with bold 
projecting jamb and arch mouldings carried to the ground—the 
splay being panelled. The staircase stops at the belfry level. (I 
would remark, in passing, that oyster-shells are freely used in the 
joints of this part.) 
To return to the nave—the clerestory is coeval with the arcades 
and the fenestration is remarkable: there are three of the original 
single cusped lights on the north side and two on the south; on 
the north there is a very late (probably sixteenth century) three- 
light window near the east end, inserted, doubtless, to throw more 
light on the rood-loft, and a two-light one of the same date in the 
centre of the south side—both of these have wood inside lintels, while 
the rest have arches. The roof of the nave is, I think, coeval with 
these late windows, but modern braces and rafters have been added. 
The south porch has a good inner doorway with cusped arch of 
the date of the door and windows in the north aisle, and above it a 
niche for a figure. There is a good corbel over the outer doorway 
also, and part of a cross above. 
