334) Notc'H OH Corsham Church. 



Chapel-of-ease to Box Church, the fifteenth eentuiy beams of the 

 added floor were removed, except the one against the west wall ; 

 they were boldly chamfered with stopped ends. 



The west porch is very simple in design, with small four-centred 

 arched doorway of entrance, with the remains of a holy water stoup 

 on the south side. Above the door is a single-light window. 



The priest's chamber has a good three-light pointed window in the 

 north gable with label mould and tracery little removed in style 

 from Decorated work. lu the north-east angle is another circular 

 flue for a lamp, but whether used contemporaneously with the one 

 at the east end is doubtful. There is a large fireplace on the groimd- 

 floor next to the arched door of connection with the hospice, also a 

 similar arched door above, to serve the upper story, and both doors 

 and fireplace are of the later fifteenth centmy alterations. 



|(ote0 on Coi'0ljam Cfjut:^/ 



By C. H. Talbot. 



^^pHE reason why I have desii-ed to read some notes on Corsham 

 ^^H Church is this. I knew the Church, to a certain extent, 

 before the alterations of 1878. I foresaw the miscliief that was 

 going to be done, though not the full extent of it, and, to the best 

 of my ability, I endeavoured to avert it, but without effect. Un- 

 fortunately I have mislaid the notes that I made at the time. 



The Church, as I first knew it, was a very interesting one, standing 

 in need, however, of a careful and conservative restoration, which it 

 was not destined to obtain. The principal defect then existing 

 inteiTiaUy was that, on each side of the Nonnan nave, a piUar had 

 been removed and one large arch had been substituted for two of 



1 Eead on the spot. July 31st. 1895. 



