By C. E. Voniing, F.S.A. 277 



The pulpit is a good piece of late Jacobean work. 



CODFORD S. PeTEB. 



This Church consists of chancel, nave and south porch^ and 

 western tower, with modern north aisle and vestry. 



The building was very bountifully " restored" in 1864, when the 

 north aisle, the porch, and the greater part of the nave and chancel 

 were re-built and the vestry added. The lower part of the east wall 

 of the chancel up to the set-off, with the buttress in the centre under 

 the east window, is thirteenth century work in situ ; but it is obvious 

 from the various stones bearing Norman carved ornament which 

 occur in the Early English work as well as in the re-built parts, 

 that a Church existed here anterior to this. Of these carvings in 

 the outer walls I may mention a bit of diaper work in the east end 

 of the chancel, a good piece of the fish-scale pattern in the north 

 aisle, and a chevron ornament in the south wall of the nave by the 

 porch. An old lancet window with a new head has been built into 

 the vestry. In the south wall of the chancel are triple sedilia of 

 late thirteenth century date with trefoil arches and gablets over, 

 singularly like those in the Lambert Chapel at Boyton, and probably 

 by the same hand. The seats are stepped up towards the east. 



The diagonal buttresses were added to the chancel in the fourteenth 

 century, and the mullions of the east window appear to be coeval — 

 the head is modern. The tower and the old parts of the porch, 

 consisting of the moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, cornice, with, 

 good gargoyles, embattled parapet, and the outer doorway with the 

 sickles — the Hungerford badge — in its label terminals, are ad- 

 mirable specimens of late fourteenth century work. The tower is of 

 two stages with well-pronounced square stair-turret on the north, 

 west window of two lights (the tracery renewed) with label terminals 

 carved to represent a bishop and a king ; it is crowned by a good 

 cornice with gargoyles and embattled parapet — the pinnacles are 

 new . The tower arch is of two orders o£ mouldings. 



The two two-light windows and two buttresses of the north aisle 

 are old features from the nave walls, made up and built in here. 



