By C. E. Ponfing, F.S.A. 269 



LONGBRIDGE DeVEEILL. SS. PeTER AND PaUL. 



This Church appears to have received much attention at the hands 

 of the restorer, and to have been added to considerably in recent 

 times. Its present plan consists of nave with north and south 

 aisles, chancel with an aisle on the north known as the Bath Chapel, 

 and an organ chamber and vestry on the south, a western tower and 

 a south porch. 



The earliest work is the north arcade of the nave — three bays of 

 semicircular arches of one order with flat soffit chamfered at the 

 edges, springing from massive square piers with the angles chamfered 

 off like the arches, and without stops, and with a plain chamfered 

 abacus at the springing. This work bears a striking resemblance 

 to the arcades at Enford, and is probably of about the same date, 

 viz., circa 1130 — 1150; the lower part of the bowl and the base of 

 the font may be set down at about the same period. 



Next in order come the south arcade and the tower. The former 

 is of three bays, the piers probably standing on the foundations of 

 Norman ones corresponding to those on the north side; and it is 

 interesting to note that both arcades are built of chalk, so that 

 probably the old material was worked up again when the arcade was 

 re-built at near the end of the fourteenth century. The arches are 

 of two orders of chamfers carried up the piers from the floor and 

 round the arches, without caps or bases. The tower was built at 

 about the same time. It is of three stages in height, with buttresses 

 standing square at the angles, and the staircase on the north carried 

 up for the full height — this was (as was almost invariably the case) 

 approached from the inside originally, but a doorway has been 

 formed to give access from the outside to meet a supposed modern 

 convenience. Note the peculiar carving to the caps of the archway 

 between tower and nave. The parapet is new. 



The north aisle was re-built at the time of the decline of the 

 Perpendicular, probably early in the sixteenth century, and two 

 windows of two lights with square heads and peculiar square label- 

 terminations on the outside (the inner roll mould turned up and 

 stopping against it) are of that period, although the cusps to the 

 heads have all been renewed and made pointed. The roof is also 



