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and those on the sides and shaft of the font there is a striking 
similarity, would indicate them both as the work of the latter part 
of the 15th century, and possibly the productions of the same 
hand. An inscription in the Church on the monument of Vicar 
Rogers, which is fixed just above the Chancel door, would seem to 
point out this stone as being over the burying place of that Incumbent; 
and there were, till within arecent period, two white marble slabs let 
into the north side of it, in the place of two of the ornamental panels, 
on which this fact was recorded. These slabs fell out and are now 
tissing, and the panels, as they appear on the north side of the 
stone, are quite plain, The tomb, however, if such it be, is certainly 
older than the middle of the last century, and by no means such 
an one as would have been probably erected at the period of 
Vicar Rogers’s decease (1754). We venture therefore to suggest, 
from its being close to a door, and from its resemblance to many 
others of the same kind in Wilts, (as in the Church-yards of St. Mary 
Devizes, Potterne, Bishops Cannings, Poulshot, Edington, &c.) that 
it may have been originally a ‘ Dole- Stone,’ that is, a stone used for 
the distribution of alms, or doles, to the poor. When it was no 
longer employed for this purpose, the plot of ground under it, or 
it may be rather that on the north side of it, was used as a burial 
place for the family of the Vicar already alluded to, the ornamental 
panels on that side having been removed and the flat marble panels, 
with an inscription upon them, inserted in their place. The inscrip- 
tion is said to have been little more than a recital of the names 
of those who were buried at that spot, together with the dates of 
their decease. 
About ten years ago so many of the tombs &c., in the Church- 
yard were in a state of decay, that, on the representatives of those 
who were buried beneath them, neglecting, after due notice given, 
to repair them, a considerable number were removed. On those that 
remain many of the inscriptions are illegible ;—from others the metal 
plates, on which they were formerly engraven, have been removed. 
The principal names still remaining, exclusive of such as have been 
already mentioned, are,—Bassett, Baines, Beverstock, Budgett, 
Cayford, Collar, Coombs, Day, Earle, Gregory, Harris, Helps, Hendy, 
