22 Notes on the Churclies visited in 1892. 



lands, &c., were conveyed to certain feofEees in trust to expend the annual rents 

 in repairing and maintaining the highways in and about the town of Cricklade. 

 This trust still continues in operation.] He bequeathed the manor of Down 

 Ampney to his second son. Sir Edmund Hungerford, who died in 1484, leaving 

 a son, Sir Thomas, who died in 1494. His son, Sir Anthony, was living at 

 Down Ampney and was lord of the manor of Cricklade in the reigns of Henry 

 VIII., Edward VI., and Mary, and doubtless contributed largely to the building 

 of the tower, as his arms and badges testify. He died in 1558. His son, Sir 

 John Hungerford, built the existing flying buttresses of the Lady Chapel in 

 1569, as well as a market house in the High Street which was pulled down in 

 1812. 



The original badge of the Hungerfords was the sickle— this, allied with the 

 pepper garb of Peverell, formed the Hungerford crest : — out of a ducal coronet, 

 or, a pepper garh of the first between two sickles proper. This can be seen 

 over the north arch of the tower — as well as the admiral's flag shjp of Walter, 

 Lord Hungerford, on which is displayed his banner and arms. 



On the outside of the tower is the " Catherine Wheel," another Hungerford 

 ;e {cf Sutching's Dorset, vol. iii., p. 422, new edition). 



S. Mar-y's, Cricklade. 



By comparison with S. Sampson's this Church is a somewhat 

 unpretending structure, but it can claim seniorit}' as regards work 

 in situ, although not as regards the collateral evidence afforded by 

 portable relics, and it well repays careful study. 



The plan consists of nave with north and south aisles, south porch 

 and western tower, and chancel with north chapel. 



The oldest work is the chancel arch, which is a richly-wrought 

 specimen of the purest Norman period — circa 1120 to 1150. The 

 arch is a semi-circular one of two orders, enriched on the west face 

 only — the inner order has a plain flat soffit, and on the face are the 

 roll moulding and a kind of stud ornament ; on the outer order is 

 cut the usual chevron, the pattern diminishing in size from the 

 springing upwards. Each order is supported by engaged shafts 

 worked on the jambs, the bases being moulded and having the so- 

 called stud ornament, with square plinth below. 



The work next in date is that of the two lower stages of the tower, 

 which are evidently late thirteenth century — the arch by which the 

 lower stage communicates with the nave has chamfers dying on to 

 the square jambs, the latter has a chamfer below with pretty traceried 

 stop, the west window is a single lancet with trefoil head, and there 



