212 Bradjord- upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
THE CHANCEL. 
The Chancel is about 48 feet in length and 20 in width. Both exter- 
nally and internally those features, which prove the original build- 
ing to have been of Norman date, are distinctly traceable. The plain 
flat buttress, which seems but little more than thickening of the 
walls, ending in a gentle slope just below the parapet, is to be seen 
here. Moreover, though now blocked up with large monuments 
affixed to the wall, the traces of the long and narrow semi-circular 
headed Norman windows are plainly discernible. There appear to 
have been, as far as we can conjecture, two such windows in each 
of the side walls of the Chancel. Internally they were splayed 
very considerably. In carrying out some repairs about eighteen 
months ago, traces were found of illuminations, &c., on the walls. 
Over the head of the most eastern of the Norman windows, on the 
south side, was a scroll on which was written the first article from 
the Apostles’ creed,—‘ Credo in Deum Patrem Omnipotentem.” 
[the remaining portion of the inscription was defaced.] Probably 
the rest of the creed was inscribed on other parts of the Chancel 
walls. 
In the fourteenth century, to judge by the style of the archi- - 
tecture, the Chancel was considerably lengthened. The windows, 
both at the east end, and at the north-east side of the Chancel, to- 
gether with the external buttresses of this portion of it, belong to 
the middle-pointed or decorated style; as also does the battlemented 
parapet, which was no doubt, at the same time, carried round both 
sides of the Chancel, superseding the original, and simpler, Norman 
work. 
Both of the windows just alluded to, are remarkable for the 
simplicity, yet chasteness, of their design. The altar window con- 
sists of five lights, all terminating, with semi-continuous tracery, in 
a circle at the head of the window, composed of six cusped triangles. 
Till lately the window was for the most part blocked up with stone, 
and the upper tracery cut away and filled with fragments of coloured 
glass, most of it of a very inferior description. The lower part 
within was, in accordance with the taste of the last century ‘orna- 
mented’ with wooden panelling in a quasi-classical style, in the 
