236 The Churches of Purton and Wanborough. 
Corbels (6). 
Inside. 
One in east wall of south transept 
One in east wall of north transept 
Two in jambs of archway in east wall of do. 
Two in west wall of north aisle. 
Aubrey, writing of this Church, 1659-70, says :—!“ This is a 
very faire Church, sometime doubtless a place of great devotion, as 
appeares by those many niches in the walles within and without to 
set images in, &. At the East end of the Chancell without are 
two Angells holding some kind of vegetative between them, which 
I suppose to be either a laurel or olive branch. 
All the windowes in the Chancell are seminated all over with 
estoiles or starres of 6 points. 
“On the North side of the Altar, in the wall, is an old marble 
tombe, but the Inscription with coates of armes being in brasse, on 
purpose to perpetuate the memories of the dead, gave occasion to 
sacrilegious hands to teare them away. 
“Tn this Church have been very fine paynted glasse, but now so 
broken and mangled, that there is little to be recovered.” 
The sculptured panel, 154in. high and 13in. wide, under the east 
window outside, which Aubrey describes as “ Angells holding a 
laurel or olive branch,” is shewn in Plate II., Fig. 3. The subject 
appears to be, undoubtedly, the Annunciation, and a flat cusped 
canopy (now much mutilated), projects over the figures. This 
panel, which is coeval with the window above, possibly commemo- 
rates a re-dedication of the Church, and there appears to be some 
doubt as to the former dedication. 
Canon Jackson? states that in a Fine of Edw. III. (1336) the 
Church is called St. Nicholas, whilst local tradition ascribes it to 
St. Michael, and the fact that the village feast falls on the Sunday 
within the octave of St. Michael’s Day seems to lend colour to 
this view. 
There are fragments of fifteenth century glass in the windows of 
' Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 155. 
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