14 The Church of All Saints, Idmiston. 



nave are probably coeval; it is doubtful whether the sounding- 

 board belongs to the pulpit. 



The oblong music stand of deal with sloping top, round which 

 the band used to stand within the memory of the oldest inhabi- 

 tants, still exists in the Church. 



The chancel retains its original late fourteenth century tie-beam 

 roof, plastered beneath. The roofs of the nave and transept, and 

 the turret, are modern. 



The font is a circular bowl of early form, covered with plaster. 



The royal arms are those of Queen Victoria. 



The walls are built of flint, without buttresses, and the 

 dressings are of green sandstone and Chilmark. The gables have 

 no copings. 



A bell with the inscription : — 



ROB : FEEEMENT LCH : WARDN W M TOSIER 

 stands on the floor of the north transept. 



The Church of All Saints, Idmiston. 



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

 western tower. 



This is quite the most interesting Church visited on the. 1908 

 excursion, and it is remarkable for the unusual refinement and 

 simple beauty of its work of the Decorated period, which is not 

 well represented m the county. 



Starting with the earliest work, the first part to be noticed is 

 what is left of the Norman western tower. The tower as it now 

 stands has three arches opening into the aisles on the north and 

 south and into the nave on the east and the aisles are carried 

 through to the line of its western face, but it is doubtful whether 

 there were north and south arches here originally, for there are 

 flat pilaster buttresses at the angles, on the north and south sides 

 (now in the aisles) as well as outside on the west, the only difference 

 being that those on the inside are built of Chilmark and green 



