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date. The history of St. Andrew’s is contained in a 
quaint insceription preserved therein : 
« This Church was builded of Timber and Stone and Bricks 
In the year of our Lord God XV hundred and six, 
And lately translated from extreme Idolatry 
A thousand five hundred and seven and fortie, 
And in the first year of our noble King EDWARD 
Thanks beto GOD. Anno Dom. 1547. Decemb.’” 
St. Stephen was commenced earlier than St. Andrew, 
namely, in 1501, but its tale of timber and stone and bricks 
was not finished till four years after the happy “ translation ” 
of the other. Its west end was not fully completed till 
1550, a time when generally more churches were pulled 
down than built up. 
St. Mary’s at Bury is a splendid structure, remarkable 
for its gigantic scale, the nave alone consisting of ten bays, 
and for its magnificent roof. Its details however are but 
poor ; the elevations are of the most typical character. 
The choir aisles are worth notice, as one of the best exam- 
ples of a singular localism of this distriet. It is very 
common to find, placed between the windows of the aisles, 
an arch rising from a shaft, which at first sight looks as if it 
were traced out for contemplated vaulting. This instance 
is one of several which show that such could not have 
been the case, as the shaft which throws off these arches 
is continued above them to support the roof. It cannot 
fail to be remarked how closely analogous this is to the 
trefoil arches over the clerestory windows at Banwell and 
some other Somersetshire examples. It is in fact the same 
in principle as the apparent pier-arches in the chancel walls 
at Cogenhoe, Cuddesden, and Battle, in which latter case 
an ingenious later alteration has converted some of them 
into real ones. 
