,:&74 Notes on the Churches in the Neighbourhood of Warminster. 



rood-loft, the aumbry, and more than one piscina," but these are no 

 longer to be found, unless, perhaps, some of the more obscure 

 fragments preserved in the porch represent some of them. One 

 would rather like to see what the " confessional " was like. The 

 head of a fourteenth century window is re-used in the new aisle. 



Although the Church has lost much of its former interest, there 

 remains sufl&cient in the chancel arch to make this most worthy of 

 our attention. 



This arch consists of two distinct archways of different periods, 

 placed one behind the other. The older archway is on the east side, 

 and exhibits features of the commencement of the Norman period j 

 the jambs have attached columns or angle shafts cylindrical in section. 

 Gin. in diameter, with a very early form of base-mould not unlike 

 those found in Saxon work {e.g., in the doorway of Corhampton, 

 Hants), the capital on the south has a square moulded abacus and 

 an early type of volute ornament, that on the north is carved with 

 a leaf and grape oniament. The arch itself of this older portion 

 consists of one order with square edge and without label; it is 

 slightly pointed and it might have been re-built when the later arch 

 was added, but if so the old stones were re-used. The later archway 

 consists of an outer western order and an inner, or central order, 

 both of shaft and arch, and it bears the Transitional-Norman stamp 

 of the last quarter of the twelfth century. The angle shafts and 

 the central shafts are both attached like the older one, but instead 

 of being a plain cylinder in section they have a pointed fillet running 

 from cap to base and carried through the band and neck-moulds. 

 They are divided by a moulded band or annulus, which is principally 

 found in Early English work and never in the pure Norman. (This 

 band has been renewed in three out of the four cases, but the old 

 stones taken out are preserved and should be reinstated) . The base 

 and neck-mouldings are much further developed than in the outer 

 arch, the caps still retain the square abacus and volute, but with 

 later mouldings, and the carvings are quite distinct — the ends of the 

 volutes having the trefoil leaf seen in thirteenth century work. On 

 the south side the abacus of the later cap has the stop of the earlier 

 oue worked on it (the later abacus on the north has been renewed). 



