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obvious evidence that the eastern portion has been added, but for 

 the fact that, at the point of junction, a new couple has been 

 inserted, resting on two new corbels, at the restoration. The 

 extension of the chancel also suggests a possible explanation of the 

 difference in design of the north window of the chancel from the 

 east and south windows. It may have been originally the east 

 window of the unextended chancel — and, if it had there taken the 

 place of a Norman window, that might account for its small size. 

 Some reason for the difference of design there must, I think, be.] 



By C. H. Talbot. 

 (Bead on the sjjot August 2nd, 189-5.^ 



f^lKij^O DOUBT there was formerly a Norman Church on the 

 W? ^X ^^^^ ^^ ^^ present Parish Church of Lacock, and some part 

 of it probably remained standing imtil the fifteenth century, as we 

 found, in re-building some of the Perpendicular work, on the south 

 side, in 1875, a great many Norman stones, re-used as building 

 material by the later builders, so that Norman work was probably 

 pulled down, when the Perpendicular work was put up. Such 

 Norman fragments ^ as came out were removed to the Abbey for 



' The Church is dedicated to St. Cyriac — a very rare dedication. It is 

 of considerable size, cruciform, with a western tower and spire, and has this 

 peculiarity, that the greatest breadth, from end to end of the transepts, is about 

 the same as the total length of the Church. The architectural history of the 

 building is, by no means, easy to understand ; and, though I have studied it for 

 a considerable time, and have had the advantage of other opinions upon it, I 

 cannot profess to have mastered it yet. 



^ Norman and other fragments, but the majority were Norman. These are 

 stones, which formed part of pillars or responds, and arch stones, which retained 

 painting of a later date — thirteenth or fourteenth century. The colours were 



