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design, modified when erected. The roof of the aisle is Perpen- 

 dicular. There are remains of a piscina, in the south wall, which 

 may be Early English. 



There is a very fine groined south porch, of the fifteenth centmy, 

 to which is attached a staircase, dated 1631, exhibiting the arms 

 and badges of the Hungerford family, and probably built, jointly, 

 by Sir Edward Hungerford and his wife Margaret, who, in 1668, 

 after his death, founded the free school and almshouse. The stair- 

 case is very interesting, as an example of the survival of a taste for 

 the old Grothic forms,i at a time when the style was actually dead. 

 It led, from the interior of the porch, to a gallery in the aisle, 

 which has been taken down, and, though the original stairs have 

 been removed, the stonework has fortunately been spared. Two 

 picturesque stone windows of the same work, in the roof of the aisle, 

 which lit the gallery, have also been removed. "Why they might 

 not have been retained is not quite obvious, as it seems that the 

 aisle is rather dark now. In the south wall of the aisle, internally, 

 are traces of a doorway which may have communicated with an 

 original staircase to the chamber over the porch. 



The font is of the fifteenth century and has some good panelling. 

 The west window ^ of the nave is Perpendicular, and there is a 

 staircase turret, adjoining, of the same date, which leads to the roof. 



buttresses, the joints running through. The Perpendicular windows, in the south 

 wall, are a two-light, near the west end, and two three-lights, on each side of the 

 porch, in the westernmost of which there is a small piece of original glass, hi situ. 



' A string course of the porch is copied and continued round this work. There 

 is also a two-light window, which is a fair imitation of Perpendicular work. 

 With regard to the arms, on the south or principal face, is a shield of Hungerford, 

 of nine quarterings, and the crest, a garb between two sickles, and the motto, 

 ET DiEv MON APPVY, and under it the date. On the east face, in the centre, 

 is the shield of Halliday (Lady Hungerford's family), with the crest mutilated, 

 and the motto, qvarta salvtis, which I cannot interpret, unless Quarta be 

 an error for Charta. On each side is the shield of Hungerford, of four 

 quarterings, impaling Halliday, with the letters e. m. h. beneath, for Edward 

 and Margaret Hungerford, I suppose. 



- It is a three-light. Over it, in the gable, is another three-light window, 

 apparently of the last century, which was, no doubt, inserted to light a gallery. 

 Under the west window of the north aisle is inserted a rather interesting doorway 

 of the seventeenth century, with a projecting canopy. 



