426 Notes on the Churches of Ashley, Berwick Bas^ett, etc. 



crockets on the back of the label. The front of the tomb is arcaded 

 with typical work of the middle of the fourteenth century — 

 ogee arches with carved crockets and finials ; at each end is a 

 flying buttress. Within the recess is a cross-legged figure in 

 armour, with his head on a helmet and his feet on a lion. 

 This figure, said to be one of the Cobham family, lords of the 

 manor in the fourteenth century, has been shamefully mutilated, 

 one side having been cut away, and the legs entirely destroyed.^ 

 (Plate X.) 



In the floor of the north chapel, behind the organ, and removed 

 here from the south chapel, is the beautiful brass figured in Kite's 

 Brasses of Wiltshire, plate 2. It is undated, but it bears a close 

 resemblance to the Bettisthorne brass at Mere, 1398, It is probably 

 a member of Quintin family, of Bupton, in this parish. 



Over the south door is an interesting Tablet of wood, with 

 painted inscription : — 



" Heare lyeth the bodye of Elizabeth Godard, wife of John Godard, 

 Esqvier, and davghter to Sir Kobart Pheteplas, Knight, who deseced 

 in the yeare of ovr Lord 1585." _ 



Above is the date of erection, 1605, and a shield : Gules a. 

 chevron vaire between three crescents argent, goddard, impaling, 

 gules two chevrons argent fettiplace ensigned with two helmets. 

 Crests : A stag's head couped at the neck and affrontee gules- 

 attired or ; a griffin's head vert, beaked or. 



At the west end of the south aisle is a large and elaborate marble 

 monument of excellent workmanship to Thomas Spackman, car- 

 penter. A figure in white marble, life size, stands upon an urn, 



^ This effigy is unusual in having the head bare and showing very curly 

 hair: The shield on the left arm is a long one, the surcoat comes only to 

 the knees, where it lies in many thick folds like a kilt. The one remaining 

 arm, which has lost its hand, is covered with chain armour showing no 

 trace of plate. From this absence of plate it is considered by Mr. W. H. 

 St. John Hope and other good authorities that the effigy is of the last- 

 quarter of the thirteenth century, and therefore older than the recess in 

 which it lies. There is a somewhat similar bareheaded effigy at Sainton, 

 in Holderness. The disc or fan-shaped object on the helm is, Mr. Hope 

 tells me, found on many examples of thirteenth century seals, and preceded 

 the use of true crests.— E.H.G. 



