40 Opening Address to the Section of Architecture 
The west doorway is unusually lofty having originally opened into 
a western porch, now destroyed. Upavon has a square Norman 
tower, and a triple chancel arch late in the style. The most con- 
spicuous Norman building in Wiltshire is the fragment of the Abbey 
Church of Malmesbury. Much of it, however, is late in this style 
and belongs rather to the Transition period. Its doorways are well 
known. The outer south door, with its interlaced bands and series 
of scriptural medallions, is unsurpassed for richness of decoration by 
any door in England, We have fine examples of late Norman in 
the groined chancels of the two Churches at Devizes, the work of 
the warlike Bishop Roger, the greatest builder of his day. The 
Churches at Corsham, Preshute, and several others, preserve their 
Norman arcades, and at Melksham, amid many alterations, we have 
enough left to make out the original cruciform Norman Church. 
Passing to Early English, in the unrivalled Cathedral under the 
shadow of which we are meeting, we have the most perfect example 
of the style on its grandest scale to be found in England. As is 
natural, its influence spread, and we find village Churches displaying 
the same purity of design, harmony of proportions, and dignified 
simplicity of outline, of which the mother Church set the example. 
Potterne, which may very probably be ascribed to Bishop Poore, the 
founder of the Cathedral, may not improperly be called Salisbury 
in miniature. The simple plan of this noble Church, cruciform 
without aisles, has come down without any alterations except the 
addition of a fourteenth century south porch. Broad Hinton is 
another example of an Early English nave and chancel, and the 
north wall of the chancel at Enford, with a blank arcade, with an 
octagonal sacristy connected with the Church by a short narrow 
passage, may be ascribed to Bishop Poore’s influences. Bishops 
Cannings, though with later alterations which mar its unity, is also 
a beautiful example in the style, which we find also in great ex- 
cellence in the chancel of Great Bedwyn, at Collingbourne Kingston, 
Boyton, Purton, Downton, Amesbury (a very stately example) and 
many other places. 
The fourteenth century seems to have been less prolific in Church 
building in Wiltshire than elsewhere. There is, it is true, no want 
