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‘The carliest part of the existing building is the north transept, 
erected, probably, early in the fourteenth century, and no other 
work of this date remains. (The south transept has been re-built.) © 
Next in date comes the north aisle, which appears either to have 
been vaulted in stone and this abolished when the nave was re-built, 
-or the springers to have been prepared for it and the idea never 
carried out—however this may be, the springers, wall-ribs, and 
shafts exist on the south wall, whilst the face of the arcade forming 
the other side of the aisle is panelled in the spandrils where the 
vaulting would have come. The nave, north aisle, and tower were 
apparently erected before the middle of the fifteenth century— 
though the tower windows have been altered, the tower raised, and 
spire added at a later date, and the unusual feature of a western 
- porch erected in front of it. This is richly groined, and the keystone 
of the arch supports a corbel. The nave has its original roof 
of barrel-vauli form, with waebapsat very similar to that at 
-Calstone. 
As is the vase at Bromham, the gem of this Church is the chapel, 
which is here erected on the xorth side of the chancel. This ap- 
_ parently dates from early in the reign of Henry VII.,.and is very 
elaborate in treatment. . The richly moulded and carved arches and 
_ the pendant groining with its peculiar ribs, carved as festoons of 
‘foliage, in the easternmost bay ; the niches supporting the springers 
-and bearing traces of the original colouring, and the remnants ef 
painted glass, are all objects of great interest, and seem to tell us 
that nothing was spared to render these chantry chapels’as beautiful 
as it was possible to make them. Both of the side windows of this 
| chapel are blocked up by monuments—very elaborate in themselves 
_=one to Sir William Sharington, who died in 1566 (this has 
_ graceful Italian foliage and arabesque ornament), and the other 
to John Talbot, who died in 1718. 
It is clear that the east gable of the nave was re-built at the 
“same time with the chapel, also the window inserted over the chancel 
~roof—(part of the earlier arch and tie-beam having been cut away to 
4 admit of its being better seen), for the gable on the outside has the 
| same profusion of late carved decoration as the parapet of the chapel, 
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