lower walls of the tower. The stone top of the holy table was fonnd 

 in the churchyard at the restoration of the church. It has five crosses, 

 typifying the number of wounds on our Blessed Lord's body. The 

 curfew is rung during the winter months. Canon Ravenhill added the 

 following remarks :— He said the church consisted of a nave, south aisle, 

 tower with belfry, chancel, and a south porch with diagonal buttresses. 

 The late INIr. Carpenter (wiio, with Mr. Slater, restored and paitially 

 rebuilt the church in 1868) had given him a copy of his interesting report 

 on the church. He said that in July, 1866, John Legg, .Ttat. 80, told him 

 that the chancel had been pulled down seventy years ago, that there had 

 been a window on each side of the chancel of two long single lights ; 

 and that the east window was like these. Mr. Carpenter, he 

 said, inferred that there was a 13th century chancel, with a more 

 lately inserted east window. This chancel having been replaced by 

 a building with no character whatever, the architects in 1868 rebuilt the 

 new chancel in harmony with the nave and richly-panelled chancel arch. 

 The arch was necessarily rebuilt and a flying buttress added to the north. 

 The nave, aisle, tower,and porch much resemble the coeval work of Abbot 

 Bradford, of Sherborne, The arcade, save the west respond, was 

 rebuilt in 1868 stone by stone. The hagioscope was then re-opened 

 and repaired. In the eastern respond is a richly-carved corbel 

 (as at Yetminster) to carry the rood-loft beam. Some of the old oak 

 seats still existed. They were repaired and re-used at the restoration. 

 The north parapet of the nave was then reset, repaired, and the 

 pinnacles replaced. Another tower parapet was also then treated. 

 Portions of the ancient nave roof remained and were followed in the new 

 design. The aisle roof was not ancient, but its old corbels existed and 

 were used for the new trusses. TliC recess in the south aisle was repaired 

 in 1868 and the effigy of the Crusader replaced on a new marble shelf. 

 The west window of the aisle is of an ea'ly decorated date. We may 

 infer that the original nave was of the IStli century with an aisle added 

 to it. In 1868 the then existing roof was of a lower pitch tlian the water 

 tabling on the tower ; fifteen inches below it. The towei-, therefore, had 

 very probably been added to the then existing earlier nave. At the 

 restoration a new roof Avas erected on the tower. Canon Ravenhill 

 then spoke of the young Crusader. He said the figure was 

 scarcely two feet long, dressed in complete mail, close round 

 helmet, with shield and sword. The hands were elevated, holding the 

 heart. The head rests on a cushion. A lion supports the feet. There 

 are no arms or inscription. The right leg is crossed over tiie left. There 

 is a similar figure in Tenbury Church, Worcestershire. Local 



