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and the north wall of the north aisle carried out 1ft. 8in., and re- 

 built. Internally, great alterations were made — a gallery in the 

 tower removed, all the old sittings of oak cut down and many new 

 ones added. The roof of the nave taken to pieces, braced up with 

 iron, repaired and replaced without the plaster ceiling, the roof of 

 the north aisle entirely renewed. 



" The old pulpit was retained but placed on a stone platform. 

 A new stone arch to the south door ; new stone heads to the tower 

 windows and to all the windows of the nave ; the columns of the 

 nave, which were declining 1ft., forced back into the perpendicular 

 by means of screws before the roof was placed on them; a new 

 stone floor to the tower and tile pavement to the nave and chancel, 

 the ancient flagstones laid down as flooring to the north aisle ; the 

 tombs of the Jacob family laid over the arch of the heating ap- 

 paratus (which was new) and the organ chamber placed above 

 them ; the walls of the chancel taken off as far as the spring of 

 the arch of the windows and new arches of ashlar constructed for 

 them, the roof of the chancel entirely new." 



Apropos of the above I would add that the tower appears to 

 have been wholly re-built in 1840, although an inscription is 

 carried round it " To the Glory of God this Tower was restored 

 by a Layman Anno Domini mdcccxl. I.S." (the latter, a mono- 

 gram, appears to be that of the architect). With the inscription 

 are carved the following arms : — See OF Sarum | Eoyal aems | 



POYNDER. 



The "stone heads " to the nave windows refer to new inner 

 arches, moulded sills were also added. North and south oak doors 

 and stone doorways were put. In the chancel, the fifteenth 

 century three-light east window was raised, the three-light window 

 on north and a similar one on south almost entirely renewed and 

 diagonal buttresses added. The fifteenth century octagonal font 

 bowl was set on a new base and step. A flying buttress was 

 built to support the aisle arcade. 



Of the ancient work — the oldest part is the arcade of four bays 

 of later twelfth century work between nave and north aisle, the 

 western two arches of which have labels on the nave side only — 



