By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 243 
is a brass with the demi-effigies of Thomas and Edith Polton, and 
the following inscription :— 
“Marmores lapine Thomas jacet hic & Lvitha 
Que Polton bita quisque bocavat ita 
Quos mors expulit hine milleno Dirgis anno 
Quadringentens Verio quibus adin’ octo, 
Gnvena luce Septembris Hunce, vuodena 
Hane ficbrui, graviens fundas peamina plena. 
Octo qx nator’ totaz suarum 
Collegium carum circueunde Sarum 
x Obieu quor’? Wanberg curatus habebit 
Quatuor atyz Decem numos que rite tenedit 
Post ortu matris vni dnica die sequente 
Lllermis ve & Walle plase Wanberg retinente.” 
It would appear from this that both died in the same year, “ the 
year of the Virgin, 1418,” leaving eight sons and eight daughters. 
It is probable that the Thomas and Edith Polton who are thus 
commemorated erected the “body of the Church ” referred to by 
Captain Symonds and to which I have assigned the period of 1380 
to 1400. 
I was recently consulted as to a repair of the Church, and amongst 
other things the state of the inside plastering of the walls had to 
be considered; this was very thick and had apparently been done 
when the roofs were renewed: it had become much perished, and 
the surface had been recently distemper-coloured. On removing a 
portion of the plastering we found that the joints of the masonry 
in the nave and aisles had originally been struck on the inside, the 
surfaces to be treated in colouring having been subsequently pre- 
pared by a thin coating of white mortar laid over this pointing. 
This determined the course to be adopted, the plastering was stripped 
off and the defective pointing renewed. In doing this traces of 
colouring were found on the east walls of the two chapels, but this 
had been so much injured in erecting tablets and in plastering the 
walls that it was impossible to decipher or preserve any parts of it. 
