18 Notes on ihe Churches visited, in 1892. 



in design to those in the Widhill Aisle, and although the mouldings 

 are different there are the same bosses and general type of tracery 

 (The east window of the chancel is an insertion of 1864, and the 

 roof is also modern). The north transept retains its thirteenth 

 century wall and single lancet on the east side ; the south transept 

 has portions of a thirteenth century buttress left, but the rest has 

 been re-built within recent times. Both transepts were re-modelled 

 in the fifteenth century, when the parapets with crocketted pinnacles 

 were added; the buttress at the north-east angle of the north 

 transept is evidently an addition to the earlier wall, the adjoining 

 parts of which have been re-built ; this was probably done and the 

 north window inserted at the same time. A wall with late doorway 

 in it now divides the north aisle from the transept — the latter has a 

 Decollated piscina in the east wall. 



The south chapel was erected during the last quarter of the fifteenth 

 century, probably by Sir Edmund Hungerford, who died 1484i, and 

 was the first of the family to reside at Down Ampney ; like all the 

 work done at about this time by that family of great Church-builders 

 it is rich and good. The chapel has four-centred moulded arches 

 on the north and west walls communicating with the chancel and 

 transept, and four-light windows in the south and east. The east 

 window has an elaborately enriched niche on each side, the corbel of 

 which is supported by hollow-sided semi-octagonal shafts starting 

 from the floor. The latter has been much raised, and the bases are 

 hidden, the whole of tliis rich work has unfortunately shared in the 

 scraping process which has destroyed the interest in so much of the 

 work here. On the south niche is the initial letter " H,^' and on 

 the north are the letters " M — R " blended, probably the monogram 

 of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is interesting to note that the inner 

 mouldings of the jambs are cut away up to about the height of 

 the figures, and apparently for the purpose of admitting them. The 

 coeval piscina exists under the south window, although its bowl is 

 gone j the low level of this feature also indicates the raising of the 

 floor; there is a recess for the altar under the east window.. A good 

 Elizabethan table now stands here, it might have been substituted 

 when the stone altar was removed. 



