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to the chantry, A large wainscotted pew, with Jacobean carvings, 

 blocking up the only original arch on the north of the nave, was 

 the devotional retreat of the great family from the mansion hard by. 

 Upon the plaster above some slight traces of color were discernible, 

 little more, however, than rude scoring in red ochre, representing 

 masonry; and some fragments of an illegible black-letter inscription. 

 The pulpit, western gallery, and remaining fittings of the Church, 

 were of the meanest kind, of painted and unpainted deal. The font, 

 a large circular basin, upon a pier of rubble-work, has been re-erected 

 in the new Church, upon a new pedestal of stone and marble. A 

 few moulded timbers remained in the roof, which, however, had 

 been modernised, under-ceiled, and spoiled. Rude beams, or rather 

 baulks of oak, resting upon the floor, supported the ugly wooden 

 bell-turret, and its three bells. These have been hung in the new 

 Church, one of them having been first re-cast by Messrs. John 

 Warner & Sons, and bearing an inscription to that effect, with the 

 date 1866. Of the remaining two, one is quite plain, the other is 

 inscribed " GOD be ovr gvyd. r.b. 1600."^ 



The south chantry, the only portion of the Church now remaining, 

 was approached from the nave by two modern semicircular arches of 

 brick, upon square piers of the same material. These had, no 

 doubt, superseded the original arches and pillars, the style of which 

 may be inferred from the mutilated remains of a third arch, built of 

 chalk, pointed and chamfered, the apex of which was visible above 

 the wainscotting in the nave. The architecture of the chantry is 

 in accordance with the known date of its foundation, c. 1333. It 

 is of good Geometrical Decorated character, its east and west 

 windows (the former blocked internally by a monument) and one on 

 the south being of two lights, with quatrefoils in head, but without 

 hood mouldings within or without. There are oblong chamfered 

 openings in the gables. The founder's tomb, beneath a cinquefoiled 

 ogee recess in the south wall, contains no efSgy or inscription. 

 This portion of the Church, being found upon examination to be of 



> The same inscription and initials, ■with the date 1624 are upon one of the 

 bells at Stourton, Wilts. See vol. iv., p. 159. 

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