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on shafts and with a string- carried across below the sill. This 

 group is contained within a large inner moulded arch of two orders 

 carried on shafts having bases some 3ft. from the floor — the space 

 between them being recessed for the altar. Tradition states that 

 this window was brought from Salisbury Cathedral, but this arises 

 probably from the similarity of type, and it is so evidently designed 

 for its place in this tiny ehapel that it would not be adapted to any 

 other. The west arch and the north door and window in this chapel 

 are modern. The south chapel is called the " Ewen ^ Aisle " — 

 probably after the hamlet of that name about a mile distant. This 

 and the porch were probably added after the rest of the Church was 

 finishedj but not later than circa 1250. The chapel overlaps both 

 nave and chancel, and has two arches of similar design opening into 

 both — these are of two orders of chamfers, the inner being carried 

 on corbel shafts, and there are labels on both faces. In the south 

 wall is a beautiful recessed tomb, pi'obably that of the founder; it 

 contains a stone coffin, and the Q^gy of a cross-legged knight now 

 in the north chapel is reported to have been removed from here in 

 1877. The tomb has a segmental canopy richly moulded and cusped 

 with crocketted label ; shafts with carved caps — the one on the east 

 having two female heads and the opposite one the head of a man ; 

 the four cusps of the arch terminate in carved heads. The canopy 

 surmounting the head of the effigy in the north chapel has similar 

 cusps to these, which seem to identify the effigy with the tomb. 

 Aubrey records a tradition that the name of this knight was AUam 

 or Hallam — there was a cardinal of that name who was Cardinal 

 and Chancellor of Oxford and Bishop of Salisbury. Eastward of 

 this is a two-bay recess — the two arches springing at the same level 

 but the eastern bay is the narrower and the apex lower ; it has also 

 a string across the back which might be the remains of a shelf ; a 

 quatrefoil is cut in the spandrel between the two arches. 



The porch is so large and rich that it might be said of it with 



' This, according to Canon Jackson, should be spelt " Ewelme," from the Anglo- 

 Saxon ^welm, a fountain. The materials of this chapel are supposed to have 

 been taken from a chapel formerly esistiug at the hanjlet of Ewen, and le-erected 

 here. 



