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lancet window without, we have already given a drawing (pl. iii. 
p- 82), so that further description is unnecessary. The effigy itself 
is sadly mutilated, but enough remains to enable us from its cos- 
tume, as well as from the mouldings and other details of the 
canopy, to assign its date to the beginning of the 14th century. 
Whose tomb it may be none can tell: the crossed legs may denote 
that the deceased was a person of authority, or office, under the 
King; for it is generally understood now that this attitude does not 
necessarily refer to the taking of the cross. It may be the tomb 
of Sir John de Holte, whose name occurs very frequently in deeds 
of the time of Edward I., and who, in the year 1314, was Sheriff 
of Wiltshire ;—but this, of course, is mere conjecture. 
' Within the last eighteen months the whole of the Chancel has 
been fitted up with oak stalls and seats. A gallery erected in 1707 
by Thomas Lewis, then Vicar, which stretched across the Chancel 
arch, and entirely shut out the view of the eastern part of the 
Church from the Nave, has also been removed. The Chancel Arch 
itself would seem to have been rebuilt about the end of the 15th 
century. There are evident traces of the rood-screen,—several 
fragments of it, together with an original bench end with its finial, 
were discovered during the progress of repairs. The rood-/ofé still 
remains. The Chancel Arch seems to have been illuminated, much 
of the colouring yet remaining where the thick coats of white-wash, 
which have been mercilessly laid on here, as in other parts of the 
Church, have been removed. The giving way of the south wall of 
the Chancel at some time,—(though certainly not within the last 
220 years,)!—has caused this arch to spread considerably. Further 
damage has been prevented by the insertion of iron bars, one of 
which of great strength, though concealed by plastering and white- 
washing, stretches across the Church just above the Chancel Arch, 
and ties the walls together. 
‘The Chancel Roof was ceiled with plaster in the year 1636. At that time 
the south wall had evidently-given way, as the plaster cornice is carried round, 
and adapted to the curvature which the line of this wall had assumed. We 
cannot perceive any mark of cracks in the plaster which seems much in the state 
in which it was first put up, so that we may fairly conclude that for at least two 
centuries there has been no further spreading of the Chancel wall. 
