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gives to the whole a dwarfed appearance; though this may perhaps 
be owing to the low situation in which the Church stands, the 
houses all rising above it, on the north side, in successive ranks to 
the top of the hill. At one angle of the Tower there are evident 
remains of some of the original Norman work; the door-way and 
a small window, which is deeply splayed internally and formerly 
gave light to the staircase, being evidently much older than other 
parts of the present building. It has been already intimated that 
this was probably the angular turret which carried the staircase 
to a tower of earlier daté:—indeed you can distinctly trace the junc- 
tion of the older with the more recent work. 
The Tower is united to the Nave by means of a handsome 
panelled arch of good proportions. The whole of this is excluded 
from view in consequence of a large gallery, containing an organ 
also of large size, extending across the west end of the Nave. The 
interior of the lower story of the Tower has some simple, yet good, 
groined stone vaulting in the roof, by which it is separated from 
the ringing-loft. 
Tue Bertrs.—These are eight in number, and have been pro- 
nounced to be amongst the best and heaviest peals, of eight, in 
Wiltshire. The inscriptions upon them are as follows:— 
. Fear God; honour the King. A.@R. 1754. 
. Love the brotherhood. A.@R. 1754. 
. Thomas Yerbury and John Goldisbury, Churchwardens. 80 (sic for 1680.) 
Thomas Yerbury and John Goldisbury, Churchwardens. R.&P. & & 
. Honour the King. I. W. 1614. 
. Prosperity to the Town of Bradford. Ab: Rudhall, Founder, 1754. 3 
. Love thy neighbour as thyself. I. W. 
. Recast by Thos. Mears. Noy. A.D. 1842. 
The Rey. Henry Harvey, Canon of Bristol, and Chaplain to H.R.H. the 
Duke of Cambridge, Vicar. Charles Timbrell, Esq., Churchwarden. 
Sacred to God on high, and in this Temple rais’d, 
May holy sounds from me be heard, and He be praised. 
In the year 1553, according to the certificates of ‘Sir Anthony 
Hungerford, William -Sherington, and William Wroughton, 
Knights,’ there were five bells belonging to the Parish Church. 
Unless we suppose any of them to have been broken and recast, 
BABAK wWNH Re 
' Date 1614 is chalked on the bell. 
