24 Notes on the Churches visited in 1H92. 



the rafters also have a cavetto mould on the edge. The arch opening 

 into the chancel is coeval with the re-building-. 



The south wall of the chancel has been re-built, and new windows 

 inserted here and in the east wall ; the remainder is late Perpen- 

 dicular workj including the two-light window on the north and the 

 priests' door on the south. The walls and roof of the porch are old 

 work of this date^ but the framing is modern. The bowl of the 

 font is a thirteenth century one, apparently reduced in height, and 

 set on a new base. The pulpit is a good specimen of Jacobean work 

 — its door has been taken oflF and put away in the tower. 



The churchyard cross is an unusually complete one, and is similar 

 in design and date to the village cross now standing in S. Sampson's 

 churchyard, but more complete. It stands on three steps, the base 

 is square but worked to an octagon at the top ; the shaft is octagonal 

 and the head is oblong in plan and has buttresses (which have losb 

 their pinnacles) at the angles springing from cherubs holding 

 shields ; the central finial is missing. The sculptured subjects 

 remain almost intact, although weather-beaten ; on the south, facing 

 the path, is the Assumption of the Virgin ; on the north a bishop 

 holding his crozier; on the west a crucifix with S. Mary and S. 

 John ; and on the east a queen and a knight. It is probable that 

 this head has been reversed, for the crucifix would almost certainly 

 have been originally placed on the east face, towards the road. 



All Saints'. Shorncote. 



Although very small this Church is of exceeding interest. It 

 was apparently erected at about 1120 — 30 as nave and chancel only, 

 and the only additions to this simple plan are a chapel on the north 

 of the nave and a porch on the south, both built during the latter 

 half of the fourteenth century, when some re-modelling of the older 

 work took place. With the exception of the parts disturbed for 

 this the Norman walls remain. Thus the north, south, and east 

 walls of the nave and the north wall of the chancel are Norman 

 work. This is somewhat difficult to trace in the chancel, but by a 

 close inspection of the north wall it will be seen that there are traces 

 of the base of the pilaster buttress at the north-east angle (with 



