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of the nave and transept, but the upper stage was the last part of 
the Church to be completed, and the square heads of the windows 
are poor as compared with the rest, although the label-moulds and 
the cornice of the parapet prevent their being assigned to a later 
date than 1530. The parapet is embattled and has the coping 
carried round the embrasures. 
The font is a good octagonal one of fifteenth century work with 
traceried sides and heraldic shields, bearing arms. 
The colouring of the weathered stone-work of the Church and 
the ivy creeping over it give a charming effect. In the churchyard 
is a good modern oak lych-gate and pendant lantern designed by 
Mr. Bethell. 
The plates which accompany the foregoing notes on Broad Chalke 
Church are reproductions of drawings lent to me by The Rev. T. N. 
Hutchinson, who courteously offered to alter the west elevation 
to show the evidence of two periods of work in the west wall 
of the nave, so that the change in the masonry is now clearly 
indicated. 
I would direct attention to some peculiarities in the ground-plan. 
Neither the west wall nor the transepts are square with the sides of 
the nave, so that, although the chancel inclines slightly to the north 
from the axis of the nave, this divergence appears to be much greater 
if taken at a right angle from the east walls of the transepts. 
1 The following extract from Sir R. C. Hoare’s “‘ Hundred of Chalke” (p. 148) 
gives his view of what he saw in 1847 :—‘‘It may be difficult to ascertain who 
built the nave, the same person probably who gave the font, on which are his 
arms, as well as on the facia from whence the roof springs—they seem to be, 
Quarterly Pretty and a blank escutchean. I am inclined to think they are of 
the family of Touchet, Lord Audley—living temp. Henry VII.—possibly those 
of James, Lord Audley, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Darrell, 
and by her might have possessed the property at Kniton (near Chalke) or part 
of it.” It will be seen that the period named by Sir R. C. Hoare is too late for 
the nave, although it might apply to the font. 
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