242 The Churches of Purton and Wanborough. 
But this window is coeval with the rest of the work of the chancel, 
and the date (1490) which I have before assigned to it, taken to- 
gether with this inscription, points to the probability that it was 
entirely re-constructed in 1486, and I think supports the idea that 
St. Katharine’s chapel, which fell into disuse three years before, 
was pulled down to make way for it. 
The only obstacle which presents itself to the acceptance of this 
theory is the question of how the liability to repair this part of the 
Church became separated from the lands held by Magdalen College, 
but this does not appear to be a serious one. 
The following memorandum from Bishop Chandler’s Register of 
Sarum (1417-1426)! might refer to one of the other chapels I have 
alluded to :—“ Wanborough Capella non est dedicata: altare tamen 
principale consecratum est in honorem gloriose Virginis.” 
A restoration of the Church was made by the late Sir Gilbert 
Scott in 1843, when the stonework of the nave arcades was given 
its present new appearance. At this time the stone effigies now in 
the south porch were discovered lying on their faces, the backs of 
the stones forming part of the pavement near the south door. 
Canon Jackson observes that they are illustrated in the Journal of 
the Archzological Institute, April, 1851, where they are described 
as representing Lady Emmeline Longespée (obit. 1831) and her 
husband Fitzmaurice (obit. 1291). But on the margin are plainly 
the words “ Fitz-william et sa femme,” and there was a family of 
this name here in 1841, in 1378, and temp. Henry IV. 
The Church appears to have owed a great deal to the Polton 
family: a brass plate set in a stone in the north wall of the tower 
bears a Latin inscription, which may be read thus :—* Pray for 
Thomas Polton and Edith his wife, deceased; for Master Philip 
Archdeacon of Gloucester, Agnes, and fourteen other of their sons 
and daughters; for Sir Robert Everard, Vicar, and all his parish- 
ioners, who began this tower Anno Domini 1435.” 
In the pavement of the chapel at the east end of the south aisle 
1 Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 198. 
