By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 425 



In the nave is a west-end gallery of two stories — the upper 

 arranged for singers — and apparently approached by a stair under 

 the tower. On the floor of the nave were the usual four groups 

 of pews, and in the midst of the S.E. group, against the 14th cen- 

 tury pillar is planted the pulpit, approached by nine or ten steps, 

 surmounted by its sounding board and having below it the reading 

 pew and clerk's pew. 1 



Aubrey, in writing of the N. aisle, refers to " the skreen," but 

 none is shown in the model. If any existed in 1835 it is probable 

 that it came under the west side of the Salthrop pew and the latter 

 may have been the rood loft ; there is now no trace of any structural 

 stair. 



The Church is said to have been restored in 1846 under the 

 direction of Mr. Lyte, architect, when the present north arcade, 

 adapted from the earlier part of that on the south was erected ; the 

 the doorway between chapel and sacristry made ; the two windows- 

 in S. aisle inserted, and presumably, the roofs of aisles and chapel 

 renewed. The roof of the chancel was renewed in 1880. 



model), the boarding of which was very rotten ! There were steps leading 

 from the Vicarage pew up to the three-decker pulpit, which is also shown 

 in the model. The Manor House pew was apparently under what is now 

 the chancel arch and the Vicarage pew more to the south and west. The 

 Salthrop pew was approached by steps in the chancel and was under the 

 chancel arch ; it had curtains to screen off the occupants. Mr. T. Codrington 

 remembered as a boy (of 10, when his father died and they left Wroughton 

 in 1839) going up to the Salthrop pew for a good view of weddings. The 

 chancel door was that by which all these pews were approached." 



1 In a letter written by Dr. Codrington, of Chichester, in 1902, it is stated 

 that the restoration of 1846 brought to light a fresco painting on the pillar 

 behind the pulpit representing a mitred abbot with scrip and pastoral staff. 

 Mrs. Maskelyne says that a small sketch of this was sent by Mr. J. Codrington 

 to the Eev. R. J. Keble, when Vicar of Wroughton, and lost. 



