418 The Church of S. John the Baptist and S. Helen, Wroughton. 



The only parb of the aisle remaining as then rebuilt is the east 

 wall with its window, chamfered plinth, and — apparently — the 

 buttress (for the plinth is carried round it and one stone shows 

 its continuation on the south), although if this be so it is an un- 

 usually early example of one placed diagonally ; the coping has 

 undergone alteration. The window in this end is a pointed one 

 of three lights of strictly Geometrical type ; the jambs and arch 

 are enriched with the sunk chamfer on the outside, curiously 

 stopped above the sill, in addition to the second chamfer and the 

 roll which are carried up the mullions and around the main lines 

 of the tracery, inside and outside. The label mould is small and 

 has the original terminal, a woman's head on the north and a 

 (modern) man's head on the south. The inside jambs are cham- 

 fered and have bold stops above the sill. 



Whatever the previous chancel was like it was swept away and 

 the beautiful one now existing, together with the sacristy on the 

 north, was built anew soon after the aisle. The east walls of both 

 are in a line ; at the N.E. angle of the sacristy and the S.E. of the 

 chancel are diagonal buttresses of two set-offs, and a similar one 

 standing square divides the two. The east window of the chancel 

 is a fine one of five lights, with well-moulded pointed arch, the 

 outer moulding carried around the jambs and arch,in addition to two 

 orders of mouldings also coming inside and outside on the tracery, 

 which, as in all the windows here, is late Geometrical in type. In 

 the south wall are three two-light pointed windows similarly 

 moulded. The westernmost of these windows is carried some 3ft. 

 lower at the sill; under the central window is a priest's door, with 

 mouldings and label like the window. A similar window to the 

 above, which evidently existed in the north wall, was removed to 

 the wall of the chapel when the latter was erected, and the east 

 window of the sacristy is of the same type, but smaller. All the 

 windows have small external label moulds, the knees having the 

 moulding turned into the wall face by a curve. The plinth and 

 base mould are carried around chancel and sacristy, and twice 

 stepped down at the east end of the sacristy to follow the rapid 

 slope of the ground. (These features are not given in the model, 



