446 Notes on the Churches of Ashley, Berwick Bassett, etc, 



[Sir Stephen Glynne's notes on this Church, taken June 24tb 

 1870, are as follows : — 



Lydiard Tregoze. All Saints {sic). The Church is a pretty good' 

 structure, situated near Lord Bolingbroke's mansion, consisting of 

 clerestoried nave with aisles, chancel, west tower, and south 

 porch. The chancel has tiled roof; the south aisle with nave 

 leaded. The tower is late Perpendicular, resembling that of the 

 other Lydiard, of two stages with string courses, and parapet 

 pierced with quatrefoils, and four crocketted pinnacles. The 

 belfry windows of two lights with stone lattice work. On the 

 north is a projecting stair turret. On the west side is a three- 

 light window and a doorway of late character. The prevailing 

 character is Perpendicular^ in fact there seems to be no earlier 

 feature. The nave has a ( ? ) of three pointed arches; those 

 on the north with plain mouldings continued down square 

 piers without capitals, and a ( ? ) small narrow arch next the 

 chancel. The southern arcade has three pointed arches with 

 large octagonal pillars. The clerestory has late square-headed 

 windows. The windows of the north aisle are square-headed,, 

 of three lights and labeled. On the south they are similar, except 

 one at the west end of the south aisle, which has a flat arch 

 and three lights with trefoil over ogee heads. There is a sancte 

 bell with pyramidal top over the east end of the clerestory. The 

 roof is coved with ribs dividing it into panels. 



The chancel arch is pointed with continuous mouldings. The 

 east window is Perpendicular of three lights, and on each side ol 

 it is a single light — which is doubtful whether original. 



The chancel has on the north some late square-headed windows. 

 The south chapel of the chancel bears the date 1655 — when it was 

 probably built, or at any rate re-constructed. It has a priest's 

 door and square-headed labeled windows, and opens to the aisle 

 of the nave by a pointed arch, to the chancel by pillars supporting 

 an entablature. Both chancel and south chapel abound in costly 

 marble monuments to the St. Johns of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries. 



