24 The Parish Church of S. Michael, Here. 
chapel, otherwise a door would hardly have been made in the screen. 
Soon after the insertion of the window (in 1325) the north chapel 
was founded and dedicated in honour of the Annunciation of the 
Blessed Virgin by Johannes de Mere, steward of the manor under 
King Edward II.! The work of this period can be distinguished, 
as a rule, by the use of a large proportion of the green stone from 
the Wolverton quarry, on the manor held with the chapel, which 
is to some extent intermixed with Chilmark. This work consists 
of the arcade of two bays between the chapel and chancel, and the 
lower part of the jambs of the chancel arch with the rood-loft 
staircase in the south jamb, which was entered from under the 
north arch, and was afterwards superseded; the exit door can be 
seen on the west face. 
The chapel at this time probably only extended eastward as far 
as the window over the door (which, it must be remembered, looked 
into the open at this time), and in width as far as the north wall of 
the then existing nave aisle, some 2ft. 9in. less than the present 
width, whilst it was probably much lower than the existing chapel. 
Both arches of the arcade were at this time on a level, and the 
raising of the western one is a later work; these two arches are of 
two orders of the quarter-round moulding, the outer order dying 
out on to a plain chamfer on the jambs and on to the stilted part 
above the cap of the central pier: this pier is an octagonal one. 
The stop on the east respond is on the chapel side Ift. lin. higher 
than the base of the central pier, and than the stop on the chancel 
side; this seems to indicate a raising of the level for the sacrarium 
floor of the chapel of this date. There is no evidence of a contem- 
porary arch into the north aisle. 
The pieces of oak tracery now made up into a screen for the arch 
opening into the north aisle are of this period, and may well have 
formed part of the rood screen which undoubtedly existed before 
the present one. 
The erection of this chapel seems to have aroused a spirit of 
emulation, for the arcade of two bays on the south side of the 
' See Appendices D. and £. 
