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remains) is debased, but, as I have before observed, this is only 
partially due to the change of style, and probably the real reason 
for it was the inferior use of the nave as compared with the rest of 
the Church. This greater richness of the chancel and transepts, 
where, of course, altars were erected, is very pronounced here: it is 
also conspicuous at Edington, but there it may be explained by the 
eastern parts having been the Church of the monastery. 
I would call attention to the strong resemblance between the work 
here and that of the chancel at Downton; in both, the mouldings 
are rich and fulsome and the tracery of the windows is of the same 
flowing type; they were evidently the work of the same hand; 
this is not an unreasonable supposition considering that the Bishops 
of Winchester were patrons of both livings and lords of the manors; 
Bishopstone is, moreover, in the hundred of Downton. The Church at 
Edington exhibits the same feeling as this work,but further developed, 
and I shall have something to say later on as to their connexion. 
The windows of chancel and transepts are of the purest type of 
the phase of Decorated work known as “ Flowing” from the graceful 
lines of its tracery ; the north and south windows of the transepts 
exhibit a tendency to change, and have the “ reticulated ” form of 
tracery, whilst in the north and south windows of the nave and tower 
the vertical lines in the tracery which are so characteristic of the Per- 
pendicular style have become very far developed. The chancel and 
south transept are treated in a richer manner than the north transept, 
the two former having stone vaulted ceilings, and the roof parapets 
are ornamented with a raised traceried pattern, whilst the latter has 
the original waggon-head ceiling with oak ribs and plaster panels, 
and the parapet is plain. The same plain parapet is carried round 
the nave. . There is a quaint little passage for communication be- 
tween the spaces over the vaulting of the chancel and transept, 
formed across the inner angle on the south-east side, and lighted by 
a quatrefoil light now blocked up. These spaces are lighted by the 
trefoil lights which are made to form curious finials to the south 
window of the transept and the east window of the chancel, the 
labels being carried round them. 
Internally the chancel is very rich—the vaulting is in two bays 
