38 PAPER8, ETC. 



Position of this tomb Is somewhat remarkable, being neither 

 in the centre of the aisle nor under an arch ; and it would 

 appear that the aisle has been widened, wlilch has thrown 

 the tomb and the arch leading into the Tetton aisle, out of 

 the centre. 



There is a two-light Perpendicular window in this aisle, 

 with a very Decorated cut about it, and placed in a position 

 which appears something llke a recess in the wall. The 

 other window is the same as those on the north and south 

 sides of the aisle, — large four-light Windows, thoroughly 

 debased, without any tracery or cusping whatever in the 

 head.* 



In descending from the chancel to the nave, we miss that 

 grand feature, a nave arch, without which it seems hardly 

 possible to imagine a correctly formed Church. The defect, 

 we know, was supplied by the Perpendicular builders, by 

 the Substitution of those splendid screens of this style, 

 many of which still remain ; but this feature has, alas, been 

 destroyed here, and a screen, probably of the date of 

 Georo-e I., which dld stand there, was removed some 

 twenty years ago to the back of the gallery, where it now 

 Stands ! The nave is dlvided from the alsles by an arcade 

 of four arches of Early English date, supported by three 

 cylindrical pillars, elghteen inches in diameter, and two res- 

 ponds. On examlning the two eastern responds, where the 

 Early English and Perpendicular work join, it appears that 



* Since the above was written, the south aisle of the chancel, beyond 

 all doubt originally a Chapel of the Warres, has been appropriated by 

 faculty, with the consent of the rectors, to the occupiers of Hester- 

 combe, for the use of themselves, their tenants, and dependants residing 

 in the parish of Kingston. The hideous four-light window has been 

 removed, and a two-light, after the pattern of the one existing, put in its 

 place. Part of the wall has been rebuilt, and a new roof is in process of 

 construction, the old one being thoroughly decayed and unsafe. 



