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



the latter year. Although there are traces of an east gable of 

 earlier pitch, the coping of this part is old, whilst that along the 

 south is of the time of the rebuilding. The two windows of the 

 S. aisle, which seem to have struck Aubrey so forcibly in the last 

 quarter of the 17th century, when they were probably not fifty 

 years old, were square-headed, of three lights, with a transom but 

 no label, the heads of lights slightly segmental {Fig. 2). They were 

 replaced at the restoration, the easternmost by a copy of the Decorated 

 window in the east wall, and the other by a copy of the Perpen- 

 dicular window in the west wall, probably to be in keeping with 

 the architecture of the parts of the arcade opposite to them. These 

 windows are seen in the illustration of the south arcade, here giveu 

 [Fig. 3). 



The font now in use is of a very ordinary type of Perpendicular, 

 an octagonal bowl with sunk quatrefoils on the sides, on a slender 

 stem, and it has been so entirely re-faced that, but for the piecing 

 where damaged by hinges, it might have been taken for modern 

 work. There is the round bowl of an interesting early 14th century 

 font on the floor near the pulpit, but its history and former locality 

 rest on vague tradition. 



In the churchyard southward of the chancel is the base of a 

 churchyard cross on three plain steps, with part of the shaft 2ft. 9iu. 

 high and 1ft. 2in. square, leaded in. 



The model as showing the internal arrangements of the Church 

 previous to 1835 is of great interest {Fig. 1.). Archbishop Laud's 

 direction for the enclosure of the altar had apparently been carried 

 out here by a rail on three sides of it. Near the west end. and 

 approached by a flight of about fourteen steps starting by the 

 priest's door and carried up against the south wall, a gallery like a 

 ship's bridge is carried across the chancel to a loft or large pew ' 

 at a lower level running forward under the chancel arch, which j 

 was the Salthrop pew. Beneath this, on the ground floor, other l 

 pews are arranged on north and south, and a big pew is shown in- 

 side the Chapel by the arch into the chancel. 1 



1 Mrs. Story Maskelyne states in a note : — " Mr. T. Codrington recollected j 

 the vault under the Codrington Manor House pew (which is shown in the I 



