42 Opening Address to the Section of Architecture 
much in the way Wykeham treated Winchester Cathedral. The 
nave is very stately, and the aisles shew a not very usual feature in 
the transverse stone arches with inter-penetrating mouldings, which 
cross them from north to south. The masonry throughout is of 
great excellence. While at. Westbury we have an adapted building, 
and at Mere a mixed building, at Trowbridge we have an example 
of a Perpendicular Church raised from the ground, as one design 
without any admixture of earlier style, by the munificence of the 
inhabitants, chiefly rich clothiers, in 1475. It is a typical Church 
of its date, with a western tower, groined within, supporting a lofty 
stone spire, north and south porches, and a very beautiful open timber 
roof, the whole deserving Leland’s description as “lightsome 
and fair.” The font is lofty, carved with the emblems of the 
crucifixion. Steeple Ashton, built between 1480 and 1500, by the 
clothiers, is also a very noble Perpendicular Church exhibiting well- 
finished masonry of the highest order of excellence. The clerestory 
is lofty, the arcades tall and imposing, the windows large aud good, 
Both the chancel and the nave are groined; the former in stone, 
the latter in wood, 8, Thomas’ of Salisbury, though late and 
rather coarse, is a very good example of a rich Perpendicular town 
Church. With its light arcades, very wide aisles, and low timber 
ceilings, it supplies a model the designers of our town Churches 
might do well to follow. I would except the clerestoried chancel, 
which is of somewhat excessive length for modern requirements. 
Perpendicular work of peculiar richness is to be found in the north- 
east angle of the county, sometimes in the fabrics of the Churches, 
sometimes in appended chapels and chantries. The nave of Lacock 
is a sumptuous building, and the Lady Chapel deserves notice for 
its fan-traceried roof and general richness of character. The Baynton 
Chapel at Bromham is also a very gorgeous example of late Gothic, 
with a richly panelled ceiling. We have a similar specimen in the 
magnificent Beauchamp Chapel, at St. John’s, Devizes. In the 
same district a rich canopied niche crowning the apex of a gable is 
by no means unfrequent; we have good examples at Lacock and 
St. John’s, Devizes. The chancel and tower of Calne, re-built 
after the fall of the older tower in 1645, is a very interesting 
