By G. Hashins. 11 



The choir floor was raised and the seven steps from the nave to 

 the altar were made about 1850 — 60, in Canon Kenaud's time. 

 Mr. Street was the architect, and it was then that the choir was 

 emptied of its high pews and the alabaster altarpiece and screen, 

 &c, were added. 



The tomb of William Ludlow, butler to the three kings, Henry 

 IV., V., and VI., stood in the choir until 1813, when, unfortunately, 

 it was removed and broken to pieces. 



Under the third arch is the tomb with the brass still intact of 

 " John Webbe, Mayor of the Citty," who died in 1570. 



The present pulpit displaced in 1877 an old carved wood one 

 which had figures of angels round it and a sounding board above 

 it ; a portion of this sounding board is in the south porch. In 

 this porch are also placed the " Jacks " ; these disabled men-at-arms 

 being out of working order and insecure, were taken down from 

 their perches under the clock, beside the Ting Tangs, in 1896, and 

 placed in this porch until such time as the churchwardens can 

 find money to again put them in working order. According to an 

 old manuscript book in the Free Library, " The Quarter Jackes 

 were sette upp at St. Thomas' Church in 1582 Eobert Elliott 

 Maior." The. "Ting Tangs" were cast by Wallis, Culver Street, 

 Salisbury, in 1581, and " Thos ffeyld of Westburye for kepinge the 

 chymes and Jackes " was paid 10s. in 1591. The Jacks are carved, 

 in mail and open helmet, and with remarkably well cut faces: they 

 stood out below the clock for over three hundred years, and pro- 

 claimed the quarters and hours of the day. In one hand each of 

 these figures originally had an iron hammer, but the hammer did 

 not really strike the bell, although the figures used to swing round 

 and apparently do so. 



In the same porch there is a memorial in carved wood to 

 Humphrey Beckham, the carving representing events in the life 

 of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 



The memorial bears the following inscription : — 



" Here underlyeth the body of Humphrey Beckham who died the 2nd 

 day of Feby anno 1671. Aged 83 Years." His own worke." 



This Humphry Beckham was elected a sidesman in St. Thomas 



