By ©. EF. Ponting, FSA. 35 
it that we need have no hesitation in concluding that this great 
work was commenced during his tenure of the rectory and finished 
(with perhaps the exception of the tower) before 1470. It was 
commenced at the east end by the raising of the chancel and the 
insertion of the present east window. This east window is a pointed 
one of five lights, in Chilmark stone, it has three small orders of 
chamfers on the outside of the jambs and arch, and one inside and 
out on the mullions and tracery ; the latter is of Transitional type, 
and in general form might be taken to be earlier than that in the 
north chapel, but a careful study of its details shows that it is 
slightly later. The added part of the east wall is of rabble masonry 
like the thirteenth century work below, and the east end of the 
chapel, into which it is bonded. The chancel has three clerestory 
windows of two lights on the south with cinquefoil cusping. An 
interesting relic of the period between the raising of the north 
chapel and that of the chancel is preserved in the stone shoot which 
came at the end of the gutter between the roofs as they then 
existed. A second piscina was formed in the south wall farther 
east, the older one being probably found to be inconveniently far 
westward. 
The Dean having performed his part, the Vicar, the landowners, 
and parishioners were not slow to follow, and it must be admitted 
that they carried out their share in a magnificent manner. The 
re-modelling consisted in the raising of the chancel arch and of the 
western arch of the arcade in the south wall of the north chapel— 
the latter evidently for the purpose of an organ-loft—the blocking 
up of the rood stairs (of which more later), the entire re-building 
of the north and south arcades with clerestory, the nave roof with 
turret for sanctus bell on the east gable, the re-building of the 
tower with the exception of the lower part of its east wall, and (a 
little later) the insertion of the arch in the latter. At the same 
time a new rood-screen was erected. I will now proceed to describe 
_ these works in the above order. 
The whole of the stone used for the internal features in this work 
(with the exception of a small quantity of Chilmark) is an oolite 
_ from Doulting, Somerset, and the point from which the chancel 
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