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By C. E. PoNTiNG, F.S.A. 



^HE following brief description of this Church was given by 

 me on the occasion of the joint visit of the Wiltshire and 

 Gloucestershire Archaeological Societies in August, 1 892. At that 

 time it was hoped that the Church, which has fallen into a sad 

 state of dilapidation and unfitness, might be repaired and secured 

 for many centuries on its present site : but, owing mainly to the 

 difiiculties of access in winter, the parishioners and others responsible 

 deem it necessary to remove it to a more convenient place. If this 

 scheme be carried out the chancel will be repaired and retained as a 

 mortuary chapel, and the nave and tower taken down and re-erected 

 — each worked stone and each piece of timber in roof and framing 

 will be first separately marked, and a corresponding mark put "on 

 its counterpart on drawings of the various parts so as to ensure its 

 occupying its ancient position in the re-built structure. A suitable 

 chancel will be added to this. Although this will require great 

 care it is quite practicable, and it will be a work of much interest. 

 With this in view careful measured drawings of the Church in its 

 present state have been made, some of which accompany this paper. 

 This structure consists of nave and chancel, the former having a 

 south porch and a western tower constructed of timber. The walls 

 of the nave are of thirteenth century date, and are entirely without 

 buttresses, but the various features have been subsequently altered 

 and the chief distinguishing marks of the early work are the piece 

 of string-course and the lancet opening for the bell (the marks of 

 the gudgeons of which can be traced) in the east gable of the nave, 

 and the chancel arch, which is a low one of two orders of chamfers 

 carried down to the floor. Late in the fourteenth century the porch 

 was constructed, and it still retains its original roof, doorway, and 

 niche with pedestal for figure in the east wall. The original door 

 is stowed away under the gallery. At the same time a two-light 



