16 The Church of All Saints, Idmiston. 



by an easy stair from the aisle and has its original roof. The 

 nave clerestory has four two-light square-headed windows on each 

 side and a plain parapet, a similar parapet is carried round the 

 aisle and porch with excellent gargoyles in the cornice. The nave 

 roof is modern. The roofs of the aisles are doubtless the original 

 ones, although they are of a type usually found in Perpendicular 

 work ; they have tie-beam principals, with braces beneath resting 

 on stone corbels ; the principals and intermediates and purlins are 

 well moulded and have carvings at the intersections. 



The carvings in this part of the Church are of a very high order ; 

 the subjects of the roof corbels in the south aisle are as follows, 

 commencing at the west end : — 



Female with graceful, waved, square head-dress. 



Female head, with wimple over the mouth. 



Three male heads, civilian. 



Four female heads. 



One angel with shield. 

 In the north aisle (west end) : — 



Female head with wimple. 



Grotesque male head making a comic grimace. 



Nun telling her beads. 



Two bearded male heads. 



Male head biting his scarf. 



Two female heads with square head-dress. 



Two female heads with a kind of wimple. 

 The roof stair went up from the south aisle through the respond ; 

 no steps are left. There is a recess cut in the east respond of the 

 aisle for use with the altar here ; a trefoil-headed piscina occurs 

 in the respond of the north aisle. 



The font is a 14th century bowl of octagonal form on a stem 

 and base, all of Purbeck marble. There is a good Carolian tomb 

 at the west end of the south aisle, commemorating Giles Eowbacb 

 who died December 2nd, 1633. 



The Church appears to have been restored in 1866-7. 



