AYLESBURY HUNDRED 



WESTON TURVILLF. 



The south arcade has two bays of the same description 

 at the west, the three eastern bays being of two 

 chamfered orders with a scroll label, and octagonal 

 moulded capitals on round columns. The third bay 

 is irregular, the western half of its arch being narrower 

 than the eastern, and belonging to the date of the 

 western bays, but copying the older detail. There is 

 also a difference in span between the ijth and 

 14th-century bays, the former averaging 12 ft., the 

 latter loft. 6 in. 



The clearstory has four windows a side, each of two 

 cinquefoilcd lights under a square head ; they are 

 spaced evenly between the tower and the east wall of 

 the nave, and do not range with the arcades. 



The north aisle opens to the north chapel by an 

 arch of two chamfered orders, and at its south-east 

 angle is the opening for the rood stair. In the north 

 wall are four two-light 15th-century windows, cin- 

 quefoiled, with square heads and spandrels ornamented 

 with trefoiled cusping in low relief on both faces. 

 Between the second and third windows it the north 

 doorway, a two-centred arch with continuous mould- 

 ings of mid 14th-century section, under a ijth-century 

 wooden porch whose outer four-centred archway is 

 partly built up on the west side. The west window 

 of the aisle is c. 1350, with flowing tracery and good 

 moulded details, of two trefoiled lights. 



The south aisle has an east window of excellent 

 14th-century design, of two trefoiled lights with leaf 

 tracery in the head, and a moulded rear arch and 

 jambs with label. On either side are moulded image 

 brackets, and at the south-east a trefoiled piscina 

 recess with a shelf and drain, of the date of the 

 window. 



In the south wall are four square-headed two-light 



14th-century windows of the same section and detail 

 as the east window, but of unusual design, with cin- 

 quefoiled or feathered trefoiled heads and leaf tracery. 

 The south doorway is between the second and third 

 windows and is blocked up, the porch being also 

 blocked and used as a coal-hole. The west window 

 of the aisle is almost exactly like that of the north 

 aisle, the tracery being modern. Externally the 

 windows of the south aisle are a good deal made up 

 in Roman cement, which destroys their effect to some 

 extent, but in any case they are very remarkable 

 specimens of 14th-century tracery, of bold and 

 original design. 



The tower is of three stages, embattled, with a 

 half- octagonal stair projecting on the north face, and 

 has square-headed belfry windows of two cinquefoiled 

 lights, a wide cinquefoiled light on the west in the 

 second stage, and in the ground stage a three-light 

 west window over a four-centred doorway with con- 

 tinuous mouldings and plain spandrels under a square 

 head. 



The east arch is very tall, with an engaged shaft to 

 the inner order and a wide splayed face on either 

 side with continuous outer mouldings ; in the north 

 and south walls are four-centred chamfered arches 

 opening to the aisles. The west bay of the south 

 aisle is screened off as a vestry. 



The roofs of nave and chancel are fine specimens 

 of ijth-century detail, but the design of the former 

 is inferior to the other. This has collars and arched 

 braces, and a wide moulded wall plate, above which 

 is a band of pierced cresting on which is set a line of 

 modern shields with painted heraldry. The nave 

 roof is of four bays, with tie-beams and collars with 

 arched braces, the spandrel* being filled with tracery 



WESTON TURVILLI CHURCH FROM THI SOUTH-EAST 

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