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single windows. The vestry opens to the chancel by a continuous 

 doorway, and the door has wood tracery. The tower has been 

 recently restored, or almost re-built, in a late Third P. style ; three 

 stages in heiglit, with battlement and four large pinnacles; an 

 octagonal turret on the south side, the belfry windows double, the 

 west window of three lights, and below it a door. On the tower 

 is the following legend : — " To the glory of God this tower was 

 restored by a Layman anno Dom\ Mdcccxl," with the royal arms 

 and those of the See of Sarum and the then Incumbent[an error,ED.]. 

 The font has an octagonal bowl, panelled with quatref oiled circles 

 on a stem of like character. There is an organ at the east end of 

 the aisle. The parapets are moulded — the north aisle abounds 

 with buttresses.] 



The Church of S. Mary. Lydiard Tregoze {or Ewyas). 



Chancel with south chapel, nave with north and south aisles and 

 south porch with modern vestry, and a western tower. 



The Church as it stands is a Perpendicular building, having 

 been re-built during that period, but there remain a few bits of 

 material evidence of an older Church, e.g., the carved heads forming 

 the terminals of the late label to the inner doorway of the porch 

 look like twelfth century work, and the plain octagonal font 

 probably dates from the thirteenth century. 



The re-building was doubtless a gradual process, the earliest 

 feature which exists is the east window of the chapel, which is 

 late fourteenth century work, when the chapel may have been re- 

 built ; the rest of the pre-Eeformation re-building took place during 

 the fifteenth century, the tower being the latest. 



The chancel has a three-light pointed east window having an 

 outside label with terminals representing a male and a female 

 figure ; on either side of this window are two semi-circular arched 

 single lights with outside mouldings of Elizabethan type which 

 appear to have been worked on earlier stones in situ, so that these 

 may conceivably be late Norman, rather than sixteenth century 

 insertions. In the north wall is a two-light window with square 



