428 Notes on the Chtirches of Ashley, Berivick Bassett, etc. 



Nelson Goddard, died Dec. 8th, 1900, aged 94, and Elizabeth 

 Agnes, his wife, died April 30th, 1890, aged 80. 

 On a board in the tower is the modern copy of an extract from 



" The Will of Thomas Spackman dated June 5th, 16V5. I do charge 

 my land with twenty-one shillings by the year, or yearly and to 

 continue for ever ; viz. : one shilling to the Minister of the Parish to 

 mind him of his duty in Catechizing the children ; twenty shillings to 

 the Poor of the Parish yearly, to be given them at the Church, viz. : 

 five shillings on St. Thomas' day ; five shillings on the Annunciation 

 of the Blessed Virgin Mary ; five shillings on St. John Baptist day ; 

 and five shilhngs on St. Matthew's day. My will is that Twenty poor 

 people do receive Threepence apiece, and that they be at the Church 

 at the beginning of prayers, or else to have no share. If the number 

 be not twenty, then the remainder to be given to those that are best 

 deserving, and if they can let them sing the fifteenth Psalm. Now if 

 the minister be a good man, he will be careful to see this my 

 will performed, for the honour of the Church, that at this day 

 is almost destitute." 



The Chukch of S. Swithun, Compton Bassett. 



Clerestoried nave with north and south aisles and western tower 

 of old work, modern north porch and chancel, with north and south 

 aisles and vestry on the north. 



The walls of the north aisle appear to have been re-built (ex- 

 cepting the doorway) during the eighteenth century,and one window 

 was inserted when the new chancel with its aisle and the vestry 

 were built. These new parts were carried out under the legacy 

 of the Eev. W. Dalby, Piector, who died in 1863. 



The arcades of the nave are each of three bays with deep 

 responds; the north arcade is the earlier, a very common arrange- 

 ment, and may be said to be the work of quite the end of the 

 twelfth century. The arches are pointed, two orders of chamfers 

 without label, the columns and responds are circular and have 

 square bases and caps, the eastern two with scallop carving, the 

 others merely worked to the same outline. The arches of the 

 south arcade are similar, but the capitals of the columns are 

 moulded and of distinctly thirteenth century character. The 

 clerestory is divided into bays corresponding with the arcades by 

 shallow buttresses, on the outside, each bay having a three-light 



