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arch ; its arch is slightly pointed, and there is an unusual sunk 

 moulding' carried round the arch and jambs. There is a label outside 

 with head terminals. The three two-light windows eastward of the 

 porch are insertions of varying dates, and afford quite a study in the 

 advance of tracery. The easternmost one, which I date at I'ZiO, 

 has the earliest form of tracery, known as " plate " tracery. The 

 heads are trefoiled, and a circular opening is cut through between 

 them ; the middle one is probably fifty years later, and indicates a 

 distinct advance — the heads of the openings are still trefoiled, but 

 the cusping is detached, and the central piercing is a trefoil. The 

 one next the porch is a late Decorated (almost Transitional) window 

 of circa 1360; the lights have ogee-arched beads with cinquefoil 

 piercings over. The two windows near the west end in the north 

 and south walls are modern, as also are the roofs throughout. 



The tower is a late Perpendicular one of three stages with diagonal 

 buttresses, parapet and pinnacles. The three-light west window is 

 a good type, with transom in the tracery ; the rest of the work is 

 very debased. The arch is new, but the old jambs remain, and they 

 look earlier than the tower. 



The bowl of the font is a plain circular one of fifteenth century 

 type ; the base is coeval, but the shaft new. 



Parts of a later fourteenth century oak screen are preserved in the 

 chancel arch. 



An interesting relic remains in the sixteenth century hour-glass 

 stand, still rivetted to the jamb of the easternmost window on the 

 south of the nave. 



Holy Cross. Ashton Keynes. 



This Church consists of nave and aisles of four bays, north and 

 south porches, and western tower; and chancel with north chapel. 

 The earliest work is that of the two easternmost bays of the north 

 arcade, these have octagonal columns with capitals, and arches of 

 two orders of chamfers without labels. The abacus moulding and 

 the carving of the capitals indicate a period of about the middle of 

 the twelfth century. The north aisle was not then built further 

 westward, as the respond in that direction still remains as the flat 



