By C. E. Pontiny, KS.A. 421 



[Bervjick Basset. S. Nicolas. A very small Churcli, a chapelry 

 to Calne, situated in a rustic hamlet and having a honiely but not 

 unpleasing appearance. It consists of a nave and chancel, of 

 unequal heights, with a small steeple on the south, which forms a 

 porch, and which is boarded in its upper part. The nave is of flint 

 stone, the chancel of brick — the roof of the former covered with 

 stone tiles. There is no chancel arch, l)ut this seems to have been 

 destroyed in the re-construction of the chancel, which probably took 

 place after the Ee formation. Yet there are the original early windows 

 built into its walls. The east window a triple lancet, that on the 

 north-west a single trefoil-headed lancet, on the south-west a plain 

 lancet. The rood loft with its screen remains. The latter is rather 

 plain, with ogee central doorway and cornices — the under side of 

 the loft is panelled, and the whole has traces of faded colours. 

 The windows of the nave are late and square-headed of two lights 

 except the western, which is of three and pointed — and on the 

 north a single square-headed light cinquefoiled. The north door 

 is pointed with a hood, and may be early. There is a trefoiled 

 niche in the south wall at the east of the nave. There are some 

 plain old benches with square-headed ends. Tlie font is First P. 

 and good — the bowl octagonal, each face having a trefoil-headed 

 arch springing from shafts with early foliage. Tlie stem octagonal.] 



The Chukch of S. Peter, Clyffe Pypard. 



Plan— cluuicei with vestry on north, nave with north and t^outh 

 aisles, the latter having the east end screened off as chapels, south 

 porch, and western tower. 



The ancient parts of tin's Church consist of llio tnwor, nave and 

 aisles, and pcnch, all of wliicli are the woi-lv of {\\o latter half <>f 

 the fifteenth century — the tower, ])r()hal>ly, ha\iiiu- Ikmmi aiMtMl to 

 an earli(U' iia\-e ami llie re-huildin-' of the remainder folhtwin^- 

 cluscdy upon it ; tlu^ weather mould on the t\isl face of the tower, 

 Rome Gfl. ahoN'e thi^ riduv of the iia\(> roof su-^esis t hat it was 

 inttMidtid to put a roof uf higher pitch than t hat erected. The 

 chaneel was I'e-huilt and the veslrv added in lvSGt» hv the lale 



