By E. Towry Whyte, M.A., F.S.A. 611 



to be altered, hence the built-up chases. The present ceiling is 

 flat, richly moulded, and carved, with principal ribs and inter- 

 mediates, and is subdivided into square panels, each panel having 

 small diagonal ribs with carved bosses at the intersections. An 

 inscription at the east end states that the work was finished in 

 1616, and is as follows: — ex dono henrici mervin armigeri 



EDVARDO SCAMEL HENRICO GERRARD ECLESI^E CVSTODIBVS ANO 



doni 1616 hoc opvs completv est, on the north side ex dono 

 thojle arvndel baron. Many of the bosses have monograms, and 

 on one are the arms of the see of Sarum impaling Bishop Audley ; 

 on another those of the Abbey of Shaston impaling Elizabeth 

 Shelford (?) ; a third is Shelford (?) impaling Audley. Audley 

 was Bishop of Salisbury from 1502- — 1524. Elizabeth Shelford 

 was Abbess of Shaftesbury from 1504 — 1524. Several of the other 

 bosses have monograms DM, JB, _J [j (this is JL reversed) ; DM 

 may refer to a Mervin. The western portion of the ceiling is the 

 oldest. In the south-west corner is the doorway of the staircase 

 on to the roof, and at the west end is a small lancet window in a 

 plain splayed jamb and arch. This is the window of the early 

 aisle. At this end of the aisle there appears to be another of the 

 chases alluded to as being in the south side, but whether it was 

 for the same object I am doubtful. The monuments in this aisle 

 are : — on the south wall, four tablets, one to William and Anne 

 Combes, &c, 1906 ; another to Mrs. Louisa Prevost, 1822 ; one to 

 Thomas Brevost, D.D., of about the same date ; and the fourth to 

 Mrs. Mary Wishart, 1815 ; the last three are all alike. Below the 

 Brevost tablets are two brasses, a man and a woman in late 

 fifteenth century or early sixteenth century costume ; they have 

 originally been fixed in a slab now lost. There is an almost 

 identical male figure illustrated in Boutell's Monumental Brasses, 

 1867, p. 110, from St. Alban's Abbey ; the date of this brass is 1510. 

 At the west end is a tablet to Mr. Charles Nicholson, 1859. 



The Nave, Over the tower arch, where the plaster has been 

 stripped off, the walling is very rough ; and in this is the walled-up 

 outline of a good-sized window, with a smaller trefoil-headed 



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