THE CHURCH OP WOOTTON GLANVILLE. 215 



I mentioned just now that the older nave was probably of 

 smaller dimensions than the present one. Look at the door- 

 way, and you will see that where the Decorated and Perpendicular 

 work join, the north-west buttress of the chapel shows itself in 

 the wall. This buttress has been cut into to allow the insertion 

 of the end of the sloping head of the Perpendicular doorway. 

 If this was an external buttress it would seem that the wall of the 

 old nave, when the chapel had been built, did not overlap the 

 wall of the latter, as at present, and that the nave was con- 

 sequently narrower or shorter than that now existing. This 

 view is confirmed by another circumstance. When the north 

 wall of the nave was taken down in 1875 it was found to have 

 been built upon a line of wooden coffins. The coffins had 

 decayed, and the wall had naturally fallen outwards. I take it 

 that in the i5th century the nave was widened by setting the 

 north wall,- and what remained of the south wall, further apart 

 at any rate, by moving the north wall northwards. Probably the 

 nave was also lengthened. 



I might here remark that we are now at the edge of a region 

 of diminutive churches, usually consisting of a nave and chancel, 

 on a small scale, with or without a western tower. Hermitage, 

 Hilfield, Holnest (enlarged by the addition of an aisle at the 

 close of the i5th century), Long Burton (rebuilt, except the 

 tower, circa 1450, when the church seems to have been 

 lengthened, so that the chancel was built outside the church- 

 yard, but on the glebe), Folke (rebuilt, with the exception of the 

 tower, on a larger scale in 1628, and lengthened so that the 

 chancel abutted against the east wall of the churchyard), North 

 Wootton, Haydon, Goathill, Caundle Marsh, Stock Gaylard, 

 Lillington, and Beer Hackett. Glanvilles Wootton I take to 

 have been another example of the same kind, and that before 

 the erection of the chapel and the Perpendicular work of the 

 1 5th century it consisted of a small chancel, nave, and porch 

 only. 



There is nothing which calls for remark in the rest of the 

 south wall of the nave or in the tower- The entrance arcliM'av 



