160 Notes on the Churches 
the date of about 1200 may be assigned to it. The north and west 
walls of the nave of this early Church remain, as also the lower 
part of the tower—in the former may be seen two small windows 
and the remains of a door on the outside of the north wall; and in 
the tower I believe the semi-circular headed doorway on the north is 
original, although concealed by plaster, and it retains the door 
which was fitted to it in the fifteenth century, when the window 
above it was inserted. The Norman buttresses of the west end of 
the nave were incorporated with the later ones, and the distinction 
between the early and late work may again be traced here in the 
difference in grain of the stone. The chopped face of these older 
stones would indicate that the Norman work was plastered on the 
outside. The Norman Church, then, probably consisted of the 
very usual arrangement (in small structures) of nave, chancel, and 
central tower, without transepts. A south transept appears to have 
been added at an early date—probably in the thirteenth century, 
and traces can be seen of the buttresses and coping in the wall 
outside. 
It is on record that there was an Early English chancel, but no 
trace of it remains. 
There is no work of the fourteenth century to be seen in this 
Church, but the building underwent great development a century 
later. During this period the nave was remodelled, the tie-beam 
roof of which still remains: the south aisle (which evidently was 
given a span roof) and porch, with room over, and fan-vaulting, 
part of which remains, were built. All this, however, is in the 
ordinary work of the period, like that usually found in village 
Churches: but the whole resources of wealth and art appear to have 
been lavished on the re-modelling of the south transept and the 
erection of the chapel by Richard Beauchamp, Lord S. Armand 
(whose history we heard from Canon Jackson last evening), in 
which he founded a chantry dedicated to S. Mary and S. Nicholas. 
This chapel, I would here mention, is line for line—even to the 
minutest detail—the exact counterpart of the one on the south side 
of the chancel of S, John’s Church, Devizes, which is also probably 
rightly attributed to the same founder, and both were apparently 
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