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inches wide and springs from an impost, which is itself simply a 
plain string-course stopping a slightly moulded pilaster formed by 
a series of segmental roundels. Above the impost, this is continued 
over the arch, as a hood moulding. This arch is certainly one of 
the earliest enriched or ornamented yet known. It may be remarked 
that the opening of this door-way is wider at the floor than at the 
springing,—one of those minor peculiarities which tend to confirm 
our opinion as to the antiquity of the work.! 
The western wall of the Nave is to a great extent the production 
of modern times, the larger portion of the original wall having been 
removed. It is very easy, however, to detect the remains of the 
original Arcade, which seems to have run round the entire building. 
A careful examination might perhaps shew how the west end was 
finished. It has been suggested, that possibly there may have been 
a small circular window somewhat high in the building: 
In the south wall of the Nave traces of an old window are 
distinctly to be seen, a portion of the semicircular head still remain- 
ing. From the windows which still exist, or of which we have the 
trace, we should conceive that there was one window on either side 
of the Chancel, and two on the south side of the Nave, of similar 
form to those that remain. 
The Porcu, on the north side of the building, is about ten feet 
square. Its front seems to have been decorated, there still remaining 
a moulded pilaster above the plain arcade already described. A 
window in the Porch on the west side is still used, and a glance at 
this shows it to have been the work of a very early date. It 
has all the characteristics of those we have already described. The 
Porch was entered by a door way, which, though closed up, still 
remains, and is almost immediately opposite the archway already 
described as the entrance to the Nave. 
1 There is a door-way, at Somerford Keynes Church, very similar to this one 
which we are describing. There is a drawing of it amongst the ‘Mullings 
Papers’ now in the Library of the Wilts Archzological Society at Devizes. It 
is drawn, by Mr. J. St. Aubyn, to the scale of half an inch to the foot. It is 
thus described;—‘‘On the north side of the Nave is a curious and singular 
Saxon Door-way, now walled up, which appears to be of a date earlier than the 
Norman Conquest.” In Rickman’s work, (appendix on ‘Saxon Architecture,’ 
p. 35) Somerford Keynes is reckoned among the Saxon remains in Wiltshire. 
