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the exception of one holding a roll), have books, and one (doubtless 
S. Peter) has also a key (not two keys, as is more usual). 
It is curious that this font and that at Avebury, which is of about 
the same date, should have appeared in a list which was recently 
sent to me for revision, amongst the instances of Jeaden fonts, and 
I was asked to add to this list any more which I knew of. I 
replied, “I cannot make any addition to your list, but I can strike 
out two, which I know to be of stone!” Whether they were ever 
covered with dark paint which led to this mistake, I do not know; 
but that is the only explanation I can give of this error on the part 
of a clever archzologist. 
Att Sarnts’. Marpen, 
Here we have two well-preserved features of a Church of the 
pure Norman work of Bishop Roger’s episcopacy—the south 
doorway and the chancel arch are not later than 1120 (some half- 
century earlier than the work at Cherington), but the foundations 
of this early work appear to have been so bad that none of the side 
walls remain. 
The doorway is enriched with the chevron and bold roll mouldings. 
_ It has a square lintel—itself an early feature—and the tympanum 
is plain, though it was probably left for sculpture. The label is 
carved with the chain pattern, the links unequal, and in the centre 
there is a gap: at first sight it would seem that the mason got 
wrong in his setting out, and came to standstill; but on closer 
examination it appears that the central stone bears a fifteenth 
century moulding—a fact which seems to point to the conclusion 
that the doorway was re-built when the great re-modelling of the 
Church took place, and that this was put in to make up some 
deficiency. 
The chancel arch has become disturbed from the settlements, the 
jambs have spread and the crown of the arch dropped, giving the 
present curious flattened appearance. 
I have often heard it stated that the jambs of the arches and the 
line of the side walls in old work were built to slope outwards at 
the top, like the sides of a ship, to symbolise the ship of the Church, 
