218 A Sketch of the History of the 
subscription: ‘orate pro felici statu Magistri Ricardi Lenot. ” 
This may have been a mistake for Leyot, for the last prebendary 
appointed by the Abbess of Wilton was Richard Leyot, 1417; and 
the first presentation to the vicarage by the college was toa Robert 
Leyot, in 1453. The date of Richard Leyot would fairly correspond 
with the style of the nave and tower. 
The Church was restored, and indeed partly re-built, in 1847, by ~ 
Messrs. Wyatt and Brandon, at a cost of £1720. Ina circular 
drawn up by Mr. Wyatt, he says :—“ The once magnificent carved 
oak roof, covering with one noble span the whole area of the nave 
(50ft. in width), is fast perishing, almost every tie-beam being rotten 
at its junction with the side walls.” Some of my oldest parishioners 
tell me they can well remember fragments of paint—red, green, and 
chocolate—that were visible on the old roof, the bosses and corbels 
of which, I am thankful to say, have been still preserved ; indeed, 
the present roof, I am informed, is a fair copy of the old one. 
There was, also, a large “ St. Christopher ” on the north wall of 
the nave, and a painting of Our Lord bearing His cross, together 
with the “Taking Down from the Cross” over the western tower 
arch. Water-colour drawings of these were made before the originals 
were ruthlessly destroyed. 
Tue BELLS. 
The tower contains a fine peal of six bells. Of these the first 
and sixth have been left untouched ; the other four were re-cast by 
Messrs. Mears & Stainbank in 1874. 
The date on the first bell is 1704, with the inscription :— 
*T am the first and though but small 
It will be harde above you all.” 
It bears the initials C. T., for Clement Tosier. Clement and 
William Tosier were Salisbury bell-founders from 1680 to 1723. 
The bells that were re-cast retain their original inscriptions; that 
on the second bell was :— 
“T in this pleace am second bell 
Ile shurly doe my parte as -well.” 
Its original date was 1659. 
The third and fourth bells were dated 1660. On the third was 
the legend “ Holiness to the Lord.” On the fourth ‘‘ Gather my 
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