By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 19 



the fifteenth century, and that of the north a pointed one about a 

 century earlier. 



The font is a large Norman bowl 2ft. 6in. diameter and 2ft. 6in. 

 high, of definite barrel shape. 



All the old work has been tooled and scraped almost beyond 

 recognition. 



In the Devizes Museum is an undated lithograph of the east end 

 of the nave, bearing the following description : — " On pulling down 

 part of the Church at Winterslow, Wilts, for the purpose of restora- 

 tion, the above curious painting was discovered on the west side of the 

 chancel arch. The letters are painted in red ; the date is uncertain, 

 but it is evidently very old." The drawing was made on stone 

 by Col. Luard. It depicts a moulded beam — evidently the rood 

 beam — across the end just over the chancel arch, and a plain one 

 higher up at the level of the wall plates of the roof, probably put 

 as a tie at a later period. Between these beams is painted a 

 " Doom," sufficient of which is shewn to prove that it was carried 

 right across ; on either side of the centre is an angel blowing a 

 trumpet ; the centre would be occupied by the rood, probably of 

 wood (what looks like a wood plug, to which the upper end was 

 fixed appears in the print,) and the angels have their backs towards 

 it ; on the south are the lost, one — a woman rising from the grave — 

 is praying for mercy, and the rest, which include a crowned man, 

 .are being driven to perdition by a Satan in the form of a man 

 wearing a cap and having a zig-zag ornament across the body ; he 

 is enveloped in flames. On the north, only one figure is shewn 

 (the rest not having been uncovered), and this the upper part of 

 a, man rising from the ground. When the painting was hidden 

 from view by whitewash, the surface was powdered by the sacred 

 monogram of sixteenth century type, in red; this was doubtless 

 intended (like the black-letter texts so frequently met with) to 

 compensate for the loss of the picture and to appease those who 

 would regret the absence of decoration. 



