12 HISTORY OF GLANVILLE'S WOOTTON. 



and is very massive, standing upon one large and 

 eight small pillars of Purbeck marble. The fol- 

 lowing account is taken from the ' Dorset County 

 Chronicle and Somersetshire Gazette ' of April 27th, 

 1876, which gives the history of the re-opening of the 

 church by the Bishop of Salisbury, on the 22nd of 

 April, 1876 : " All the stonework of the interior has 

 been divested of whitewash, the rough rubble being 

 left unplastered, and the pointing being properly 

 managed, a good effect of light and shade has been 

 produced. The singing gallery, also, has been re- 

 moved, and the tower-arch (which is rather a rude 

 piece of work) exposed. New pitch-pine open benches, 

 varnished, have taken the place of the former pews ; 

 and the waggon-headed roof has been replaced with 

 one of a similar pattern made of pitch-pine, with 

 oaken bosses or pattern after the old style at the 

 intersections of the ribs. The old stone tiles have 

 again been put on. The northern wall has been taken 

 down and re-erected, but the same stones having been 

 used, the venerable aspect has been unchanged. The 

 lower window has been repaired, but much of the 

 original tracery has been preserved ; and a new window 

 of a similar pattern (rather early Perpendicular) has 

 taken the place of one of a nondescript character. 

 At the intersection of the nave and chancel a chimney 

 has been added, but the ' native ugliness ' that usually 

 clings to these structures has been avoided, and it has 

 been made to assume the appearance of a rather 



