32 Notes on the Churches visited in 1892. 



aisles have their fourteenth century roofsj without principals ; the 

 roof of the nave is of about the same date, and of the trussed-rafter 

 type, but with moulded principal ribs, longitudinal purlins, and 

 ridge-piece, and plates with carved pateree : it has also tie-beams 

 with traceried braces and carved central bosses ; good stone corbels 

 with alternate male and female heads in various characters. The 

 north porch and tower are also late Decorated work, the former has 

 diagonal buttresses with a two-light window in each side ; the latter 

 is of three stages with good five-light west window in the lower 

 stage, a two-light window in each, face of the belfry, and a single 

 light in the west and south faces of the middle stage. The 

 staircase only reaches the latter; there are diagonal buttresses. The 

 arch opening into the nave is a plain one of two orders of chamfers 

 and chamfered impost. 



Few alterations were made here during the great period of activity 

 in building and re-modelling Churches — that of the fifteenth century. 

 The Ashton Keynes people had already " restored " their Church 

 and resisted the prevailing tendency to make further alterations. 

 With the exception of the few points previously mentioned the 

 Perpendicular work here is confined to the south porch (which has 

 its old roof of barrel-vaulted form), a two-light square-headed 

 window and priests' door in the south wall of the chancel, and an 

 east window of three lights (the greater part of which has been 

 renewed), a diagonal buttress at the south-east angle added to the 

 Early English wall and a three-light window in the south aisle — in 

 the inner sill is what appears to be the bowl of a piscina, and the 

 outer sill bears traces of having been raised. 



There are fragments of coeval glass in the Perpendicular window 

 of the south aisle — the principal emblem is that of the Trinity, a 

 seated figure of God the Father holding a crucifix, with left hand 

 raised in blessing : the usual dove representing the Holy Ghost is 

 not visible. Another piece probably commemorates the founder — a 

 figure holding the model of a Church, and with an indistinct in- 

 scription which is apparently jesu maeci. 



There are here, as in so many of the Churches in this locality, 

 several twelfth and thirteenth century coffin slabs— and it is to be 



