By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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the others on botli sidea. The coluirins are cyhndrical with moulded 

 bases, one has a plaiiily-iiiouUh^d cap, and the other two scallop 

 carving. 



The cliaucel arch, prol)ably early fifteenth century, has two 

 orders of hollows on jambs and arch stopping on octagonal bases ; 

 across it is a simple stone screen of later Perpendicular of four 

 bays each side of the central opening, the lower [)art is of solid 

 masonry. On one side this is wrought and the other plastered, 

 the oak beam is modern. (This, with Compton Bassett and High- 

 way, makes three screens of stone within three miles' radius.) In 

 the north janjb of the arch is a S([uint, northward of which is an 

 ambulatory passage (as at Avebury) and beyond this again the 

 rood stair going up over the ambulatory; the stair door cuts 

 through the Norman respond of the arcade. 



Ililiiiark)!!. Sfrceii, i)as.sa<;-e to north aislr ;iiiil si|iiiiit, Iron 

 the {'liaiiccl. 



In the south wall nf tho na\-o arc the icniains of a piscina, ah^o 

 a three-li'4li( wimlow wcslward n\ ihc pmch and iwu siniihir 

 windows (Mstwird iA it; tho w.ill is dt' ruhl>lo with froestone 

 haso and ihroo lail t ros.sos. — iho t.iio opposite tho east wall a 

 vory (loop ono, [Uohahly lo resist sotllonu'nls whioh aro still in 

 progit'ss, 



