By C. E. Ponting, F.8.A. 207 
garden has a bronzed surface; others have figures of the Blessed 
Virgin Mary, 8S. Mary Magdalene, and a Bishop. There are 
fragments of old glass in the sacristy window, in one of which the 
figure of a Bishop can be traced. 
The period over which the work of re-modelling extended may be 
stated At circa 1340 to 1370. I have referred to several particulars 
in which this work resembles that at Edington and the chancel at 
Downton. This resemblance is so strong that I am led to the 
conclusion that, not only the Church which bears his name (and 
which was built between 1352 and 1361), but also the beautiful 
work at Bishopstone and Downton are the work of Bishop Eprnerton, 
the great architect who originated the phase of Gothic known as 
the “ Perpendicular,” and not only initiated William of Wykeham 
in it, but set the pattern for him in the great re-modelling of 
Winchester Cathedral. He was Master of S. Cross, Winchester, 
in 1384, and his talents were no doubt largely employed by his 
predecessors in the see of Winchester, the patrons of this Church 
at the time of its erection. Many of the remarks on this point in 
my paper on Edington Church, read before the Archzological 
Institute at Salisbury, would apply here (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. 
xxiv., p. 31), and I am glad to find that my view is shared to some 
extent by so careful an observer as Mr. C. H. Talbot (Wilts Arch. 
Mag., vol. xvii., p. 243.) 
S. Marrin’s. Fuirrerp Bavanrt. 
This is, perhaps, the smallest Parish Church in the county: it is 
a simple rectangular building, of thirteenth century date, without 
the usual sub-division into nave and chancel—there being no arch 
or screen to indicate where the one ends and the other begins. 
The walls appear to be almost wholly of the original work, a 
splayed plinth is carried round and returned down by the jambs of 
P the main entrance doorway at the west end, which has a segmental 
é arch with flat cavetto moulding. The only other Early English 
_ features are the east gable cross, and the small lancet window on the 
_ north side, the opening of which is only 6in. wide and 2ft. high. 
The other openings in the walls are insertions of fifteenth century 
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