ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN FORDINGTON CHURCH. 193 



It has a plinth and surbase about 2ft. Sin. high, on which are 

 placed two Ionic columns about ift. in diameter and pft. high, 

 supporting an entablature with a pediment, of correct detail, with 

 its architrave, frieze, and cornice mouldings, embellished with 

 the egg-arid-dart enrichment and small consoles. The centre is 

 formed as a panel with egg-and-dart mouldings, having keyed 

 corners. The frieze and cornice is carried round the sides of the 

 chancel at the springing of the cove, the top of the cove being 

 enriched with a ceiling moulding. The panel has the Ten 

 Commandments written on it. 



On the transept side of its arch to the nave (see Sketch No. 4) 

 near the underside of the roof are raised figures of the date 1754. 

 This date nearly approximates to that of the erection of the Pitt 

 chancel. 



It is believed that it was at this date that the open timber roofs 

 were firred down, plastered, and provided with those plaster ribs 

 and cornices of classic section at the springings, now forming the 

 waggon-headed shaped roofs over the nave and transept. 



In the year 1833 an enlargement was made north of the 

 church. The old north wall (nearly in a line with the chancel) 

 was removed, the north transept with its arch was demolished, 

 and only the east wall left standing, but its window blocked up. 

 The enlargement was effected by building a new north aisle in a 

 style, the least said about which the better, contrary to the 

 canons of recognised principles and good taste, Puritanical in 

 the extreme, and of a character similar to those erections put up 

 by the Dissenting bodies of that period, and which they have 

 now learnt to do better in these later days. 



The Portland stone masonry and workmanship is as good as, if 

 not better than, any of the work remaining to the church ; but 

 there it ends. 



The style of the outer wall is that which found favour with the 

 churchwardens of that period, viz., debased Gothic of the plainest 

 description, with not a feature beyond that of strict utility, they 

 forgetting that the sense of seeing, which is equally important, 

 or rather more so, wanted satisfying as well as that of 



