448 Notes on the Chiorches of Ashley, Berwick Bassett, etc. 



inside the window has a moulded curtain arch, carried on attached 

 shafts on the jambs with delicately carved caps. There are labels 

 inside and outside, the former have terminals representing female 

 heads. Under the window, inside, is a coeval recessed tomb with 

 pointed arch with two orders of mouldings springing at 18in. above 

 the floor. From this front a sub-arch of ogee form, limited to the 

 inner order of moulding, is carried across to support four figures, 

 and this arch only is cusped on the under side. At the apex of 

 the sub-arch is carried up a double shaft with cap for two figures, 

 and a canopy of ogee form, carved and moulded, is worked on the 

 main arch over this group (the figures of which are missing) ; the 

 crockets and finial of this canopy are exquisitely carved. On either 

 side of the double pedestal, and at a lower level, are two others 

 with short octagonal shafts having caps moulded only ; these figures 

 are also missing. The whole composition of tomb and window over 

 is most beautiful, all the more so from not being too elaborately 

 carved, much of the effect being obtained by well-studied mouldings. 



Within the tomb, but obviously not belonging, is a thirteenth 

 century slab on which are sculptured the figures of a man and 

 woman, the former with curly hair and a beard ; the woman wears 

 the wimple ; the right hands of the two are clasped between the 

 bodies, the drapery is of a nice simple type. These probably 

 represent members of the Basset family, who received the manor 

 from King John and held it until 1271. 



The doorway in the aisle is nearly close to the transept wall 

 and it exhibits the same refined taste ; it has a four-centred arch 

 with carved paterae of ball-flower set in four leaves (the one in the 

 apex being cleverly arranged with five leaves) connected by con- 

 tinuous stems, all set in a hollow mould. Over the door is a nicely- 

 moulded label having one head terminal, the other a perfectly 

 plain corbel the purpose of which is not clear — it appears to be 

 coeval with the rest of the work (Plate XX.) . 



The nave arcade of three pointed arches is of two orders of 

 mouldings of the wave-mould type, carried down the jambs and 

 pillars to low bases of octagonal form, dying on to a square ; the 

 -easternmost of these arches forms the entrance to the transept, and 



