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Church of Bishopstone only a few years earlier still. The five-light 
west window was inserted as part of the re-modelling, and has the 
same type of Perpendicularized “ reticulated” tracery as the side 
windows, and a little more fully developed than those in the eastern 
parts of Edington. The retention of the old walls here as far as 
seems to have been practicable, illustrates the respect which the 
re-modeller entertained for the work of his predecessors ; and we 
have just seen a parallel instance in the nave of Bishopstone. 
The porch, erected at the same time, is a large one of two stages ; 
the upper room was formerly approached by a staircase westward of 
the inner door, but the entrance to it is now blocked up, and the 
floor has been removed. There is a stoup by the door, having its 
bowl intact ; the eanopy and jambs are made up of odd bits worked 
for another purpose; inside the porch are two stone benches. Over 
the outer doorway is a niche, and a two-light window. The old 
oak door, with an elaborate escutcheon, remains. A coeval doorway 
in the north wall is now blocked up. The poreh and nave have 
the same plinth, parapet and cornice, and the latter is enriched with 
carved pater on the porch and the west front of the nave only. 
The internal span of the nave thus formed is 30ft. 6in., and the 
original roof (of which the present one is said to be a copy) remained 
until 1847, when the old lead covering was sold, and slates substi- 
tuted. 
This obliteration of the orthodox arrangement of nave and aisles 
seems an extraordinary thing to have taken place at that time— 
it was long before I could realize it: not content with a minute 
examination of the various indications of the change I wrote asking 
the Vicar what evidence there was of a previous roof to the present 
modern one, and his reply settles the point.! The old stone roof 
corbels remain, and are carved, some with angels playing instruments, 
others with masks, &c. 
The re-building stopped at the end of the aisle on the north side, 
but on the south it embraced the entire transept, which, with the 
1 As the purport of this letter is given in the interesting paper by the Rey. 
T. N. Hutchinson, which follows, I need not repeat it here. 
