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The pinnacles here are diagonal; the tracery of the west window 
has been mutilated. 
The chancel is a modern structure, and the north wall of the nave 
has been re-built and an excrescence, consisting of a kind of Royal 
Box, added, in which are the arms of the Poore family. There are 
good bits of old glass in the windows of this pew. 
The arrangements at the west end detract very much from the 
proportions of the Church, and block up the tower. The bench 
ends are a very interesting example of sixteenth century Gothic 
work, and it is to be hoped they will be taken care of in any 
restoration of the Church. 
There is an Elizabethan tablet to ‘“ W.P.”—a member of the 
Pinckney family. 
S. Mary tHe Virein’s. Upavon. 
This must have been, when at its best, a Church of very fine 
proportions, and in this respect il reminds one of its sister Church 
at Netheravon. 
To trace the history of this building from its earliest period we 
must begin at the east end where we have some well-preserved 
evidence of the Church of the Transitional Norman period, or circa 
1175. Although the north and south walls of the chancel and the 
greater part of the east wall have been re-built, its original dimen- 
sions have been retained, the buttresses remain undisturbed, and the 
old features have been reinstated: of these original features there 
are the three buttresses at the east end and the two side windows of, 
probably, a group of three; the priests’ door in the north wall with 
_the pretty stops on its jambs; the sanctuary window in the same 
wall with inside bonnet arch ; and the singular triple chancel arch, 
which latter I will describe more in detail. The central arch of the 
_ three is wider than the others and pointed, the arch is of two orders, 
_ the outer member is ornamented with the Norman chevron moulding 
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and the inner member plain; it has a square billet-moulded label. 
‘The side arches are carried back to the full width of the nave on 
each side, and are semicircular, whilst on their east face they are 
narrower—being contained within the width of the chancel—and 
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