358 Colerne Church. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE 
Church of St. Sahn the Baptist, Calerne. 
By E, W. Gopwi, Esq. 
This Church, as will be seen by the accompanying plan, (plate 1) 
consists of a nave, with aisles, chancel, north chapel, south porch, 
and tower at the west end. 
EXTERIOR. 
The Tower (of the 15th century) is a bold, lofty structure of 
three stages, with good projecting buttresses at three of its angles, 
and an octagonal staircase turret at the north-east. 
The lower story contains in the west wall a small four-centred 
arched doorway, over which is a four-light window, originally of 
good design, but now sadly mutilated. The north and south walls of 
this story are enriched with deeply recessed pannelling of the same 
character as the west window, but elongated to the basemold and in 
a much better state of preservation ; the tracery in the head is sub- 
arcuated, and the lights throughout cinquefoliated. The walls 
above the stringcourse in the second stage are ornamented on all four 
sides by a series of long cinquefoliated pannels, the centre one on 
the north, south, and west sides being occupied by an elegant 
canopied niche, which is as usual, void. The belfry windows are 
in pairs, double lighted, transomed, and with deeply recessed jambs; 
the lights are filled with “‘ashlare,” solid below the transoms, but 
perforated above; the parapet is pierced with trefoliated triangles, 
surmounted by four pinnacles, which are evidently too small for 
the height of the tower; this becomes more evident when viewed 
from the north-east, where the pinnacle over the turret appears 
rather to sink into than rise out of it. 
The present appearance of the south aisle is “ perpendicular,” 
though remnants of earlier date still exist. It has a square-headed 
