122 NoteH on Churches in the NeUjhhourhood of Marlborough. 



between, and holding a conventional leaf. The bases are circular 

 on square plinth with " tongues " at the angles. This arcade may 

 be put down at about 1160. The north arcade is evidently a little 

 later, say 1170 — 1190 ; the arches are of the same form and section, 

 but the labels are more richly moulded and the capitals are circular 

 and moulded only ; the base mouldings, too, are of a later type. 

 There are later openings through the eastern responds, the one on 

 the south has a bit of early moulding as an abacus. 



The chancel arch is still later in feeling, say about 1200. It is 

 pointed, and has two orders of chamfers, supported on early-looking 

 corbels — that on the north having a head — and the abacus of early 

 section is continued round the chamfers. 



The arch into the tower appears to be coeval with the chancel 

 arch. It is an acutely-pointed one of one square order, having an 

 impost moulding at the springing : the jambs have small chamfers 

 on the east angles with stops of Early English tj^e. The lower 

 two stages of the tower up to the string under the belfry window 

 were built at the same time, and the flat buttress carried round the 

 south-west angle is the original one of this date. The north and 

 south windows of the middle chamber (the top stage of the early 

 tower) are very remarkable. They are each of two lights with 

 square heads and pilaster-like mullions having rudely-moulded caps 

 and bases which recall Saxon work in form but not in detail — these 

 are a curious survival of an older type. There are traces of a 

 similar window on the west face at a higher level, but cut short by 

 the re-building of the upper stage at a later period — this points to 

 the conclusion that the early tower had a saddle-back roof with 

 gables east and west, and eaves on the north and south, level with 

 the window heads. The west door of the tower is in detail dis- 

 tinctly in advance of the rest of this work, and I conclude that it 

 was inserted some thirty years later. 



After the completion of the nave with its arcaded sides and two 

 ends (one of which was the tower) the aisles were commenced ; the 

 south aisle (excepting the west window, which is modern, and the 

 easternmost bay) and the western part of the north aisle with two 

 early buttresses remain of this work of the first quarter of the 



