72 The Churches of Bulford, Enford, and Fittleton. 



century, but the south side has been re-built, and is lighted by four 

 two-light windows ; these, with the east gable, are part of the work 

 finished in 1831, but there were probably windows on this side 

 before. 



The chancel arch indicates some advance in style, and may be 

 assigned to the latter part of the 12th century ; it is pointed and 

 supported on attached shafts with carved capitals of early type. 



The chancel portion of the Church possesses very remarkable 

 features, which seem to indicate the use of it by a considerable 

 number of clergy, and its connection with Chisenbury Priory. 

 The chancel has a clear internal length of 31ft. 7in., and the whole 

 of the north wall (excepting the spaces taken up by piscina and 

 two doors) is occupied by sedilia arranged in a recessed arcade, and 

 without windows ; the sacrarium on this side has a triple arcade, 

 in the easternmost bay of which is a recess which might have been 

 either a piscina or an aumbry, and seats on different levels exist in 

 the other two. Westward of this is a priests' door opening to the 

 outside. This is a 14th century insertion, and the recess originally 

 had a seat like the others, traces of it being discernible. Beyond 

 this is a coeval door leading to the sacristy, contained within 

 a bay of the arcade, and westward of it four wide bays of sedilia 

 on one level. This wall and group of features are of early 13th 

 century work of a good type. The east wall was altered in the 

 14th century, when the diagonal buttresses were added, and the 

 rather poor four-light window inserted. The south wall of the 

 chancel was re-built in brickwork, probably during the latter half 

 of the 18th century, and has two semi-circular pseudo-classic 

 windows. On the north of the chancel, and connected with it by 

 a narrow passage lighted by a small lancet window, is a coeval 

 octagonal vestry of unique design. It is 9ft. 9in. internal diameter ; 

 in each of the north, east, and west sides is a small lancet window ; 

 and in each of the four canted sides is a recess — that in the south- 

 east being a piscina with rebates as if intended for a shutter ; those 

 in north-east and north-west sides are aumbries, also with rebates, 

 and in the two former the iron hooks remain to which the folding 

 shutters were hung. The south-west recess is a shallow sink or 



