422 Notes on the Churches of Ashley, Berivick Bassett, etc. 



squire, Mr. H. X. Goddard, and the reniaiiider of the Church re- 

 stored in 1874, Mr. Butterfield being the architect for both works.^ 



The tower is of three stages divided by string-courses which, 

 with the cornice, base mould, and plinth, are more pronounced than 

 is the local type; there are diagonal buttresses at the angles, 

 carried to the top and terminated by pinnacles. The tops of these 

 latter were re-built in 1874,^ the stair turret on the south is carried 

 up to the first string-course rectangular in plan, on the east 

 side, above this the projection is octagonal and is so continued 

 above the tower. Both this and the tower have embattled 

 parapets. The west window of the lower stage is a three-light 

 pointed one with outside label having square returns; below it 

 is a four-centred doorway with similar label, and above a good 

 two-light pointed labelled window in the middle stage, the tracery 

 lights of which are blind. The belfry has four two-light pointed 

 windows which are without labels (Plate Y.). The west end of 

 the south aisle and its buttress have similar plinth and base 

 mould to the tower, and were probably built as part of it, but 

 have been widened out at the top in modern times. 



The walls of the north and south aisles are symmetrical, and 

 alike, and have similar base moulds which do not, however, range 



^ A wooden model of the Church now preserved at the manor, was made 

 (? by the Rev. Francis Goddard) before the re-building of the chancel (? 1840 

 —1850). The windows and details are carefully and to all appearance 

 accurately given. The chancel shows two two-light square-headed windows 

 on the south side occupying the positions of the existing windows, with a 

 priest's door between them, which no longer exists. On the north side one 

 similar window appears in the centre of the wall, in the position of the 

 present vestry door to the west of the existing window. There was no 

 vestry. The model shows the east window^ as a good four-light Perpendicular 

 window with many lights in the head, but whether such a window really 

 existed m stone at the time of the re-building, and was removed by Mr. 

 Butterfield in order to insert the present three-light window of poor late 

 thirteenth century character, seems very doubtful. It is more probable 

 that the wooden frame of a four-light window of "Carpenter Perpen- 

 dicular," which still exists in the barn of the Home Farm (1912) was the 

 window which is improved upon in the model, and was removed by Mr. 

 Butterfield.— E. H. Goddakd. 



^ Old drawings of a hundred years earlier show the pinnacles without tops 

 to them.— E.H.G. 



