264 Notes on the Churches in the Neighbourhood of Warminster. 



four prebends are — 1. Tytherington, given by the Empress Maud : 

 2. Horningsham : 3. Hill Deverill : and 4. Swallowcliffe. The 

 Archdeacon was at first head of this Collegiate Church, but it was 

 afterwards annexed to the deanery of Sarum. The Dean now acts 

 as Ordinary within it, and has the patronage of the four prebends." 

 In the belfry are two kneeling figures in white marble of Thomas 

 Moore and Rachel, his wife, died 16^3. 



SmoN Veny. The Old Church of S. Leonard. 



Since the fine new Church of S. John's was erected from Mr. 

 Pearson's designs in 1868, the old Church has been allowed to fall 

 into ruins, with the exception of the chancel, which was then en» 

 closed and used as a mortuary chapel ; and as the old work is fast 

 disappearing, it seems desirable to place on record some description 

 of it as it exists in 1893. 



The Church was cruciform, consisting of nave and chancel with 

 arches at the " crossing,'' and north and south transepts. 



In the north wall of the nave is a good Norman doorway with 

 semicircular arch with label and a flat lintel under which the jambs 

 are corbelled out. The shafts on the jambs are missing, but the 

 caps remain— these are carved and have square abacus moulds. No 

 other parts of the Norman Church remain, as the earliest walling 

 is of thirteenth century date, when the entire structure appears to 

 have been re-built (the Norman doorway remaining in situ). The 

 walls of this period remain in the nave and chancel (with the 

 alterations referred to below) and part of the transepts — they are 

 constructed of rubble and appear to have begun to subside and incline 

 outwards at a very early period of their existence, for the fourteenth 

 century part of the south transept was built against an already 

 leaning arch. 



The four arches at the crossing are distinctly Early English [circa 

 1200), three orders of chamfers carried down the jambs, intersected 

 only by an impost moulding, and having interesting stops which 

 show the jambs and arches to be coeval ; the bases are splayed. 



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