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dying out on to the jambs and the outer chamfers are stopped at a 
high level ; this was constructed with the chancel. There is also a 
coeval double-arched recess in the south wall of the sanctuary, for 
piscina and credence. 
The font is an interesting one of the same thirteenth century 
date; it is of a somewhat unusual type—the bow] being moulded 
like an Early English capital, with a double bell, and supported on 
a central shaft with four small ones round it. 
The pitch of the early nave is shown on the outside at the east 
end. 
S. Mary’s or S. Lawrence’s.! Stratrorp Tony. 
The charming situation of this Church is of itself a remarkable 
feature, and the building, although much of it has been reconstructed 
in the poorest manner, has several points of interest. 
The chancel is a beautiful instance of the adaptation of the purest 
work of the fourteenth century to the purposes of a simple village 
Church, and it is apparently erected on thirteenth century founda- 
tions. This re-building seems at first sight to negative the con- 
elusion at which I arrived at Combe Bisset, but it is easily accounted 
for in the present instance by the evident signs of the risk which has 
been incurred in placing the building too near to the edge of the 
knoll on which it stands and with insufficient care in preparing the 
foundations. The angles of the present chancel have subsided to ; 
such an extent as to cause the plinth course to form a much-curved 
line on its upper face, and large fissures are apparent in the east wall. 
The re-building of the walls of the nave (probably late in the last 
‘eentury) was doubtless necessitated by their settlement or collapse, 
and I think that the same thing may have happened to the chancel 
four hundred years earlier, owing to its more insecure position. It is 
to be hoped that the foundations will be secured before this operation 
has to be repeated. 
It is evident that an earlier Church stood here, for the font and 
_ 1Canon Jackson gives this dedication (Wilts Mag., vol. xv., p. 105), but 
_ Ecton states it as S. Mary. 
