348 The Churches of Sherston, Cordon, and Netheravon. 



nave and aisle. The room over the porch is approached by a stair 

 turret in the angle of the chapel, which retains its original door 

 and ironwork. A stone bench-table runs along the west wall of 

 this chapel, and in it is the bowl of a piscina of earlier type. This 

 cannot be in its original position. Shortly after this the south 

 transept, of which the indications before referred to remain, was 

 taken down and in its place was erected the present chapel, which 

 is continued eastward, extending to three bays in length, and 

 overlapping the chancel to within 9ft. 6in. of its entire length. 

 The three bays are flanked and divided by buttresses and have the 

 moulded plinth and base of the porch and lesser chapel continued 

 on, but it will be seen that the courses of masonry in the later 

 chapel do not range with those of the earlier which, on the other 

 hand, do range with those of the porch. In the outer bays of this 

 chapel there are two four-light square -headed windows — the label 

 terminals being square, while those in the somewhat similar four- 

 light window of the earlier chapel are circular. A closer comparison 

 of the windows shows also that the label mould of the eastern 

 chapel is of a later section, while the ogee of the head is distinctly 

 flatter. There is a similar four-light window in the east wall, but 

 without label. In the central bay is a priest's door with a small 

 square window above, but not vertically over it. The roof is a flat 

 lean-to, and an embattled parapet is carried along the south of 

 both chapels and returned up the slope at the east end. A four- 

 centred arch communicates with the chancel ; it has panelled 

 octagonal jambs of west-country type, with moulded caps having 

 carved paterae, the mouldings of the arch — a double ogee and cave t to 

 — die out on to the splay of the jambs. The wall between the 

 two chapels (the west wall of the former south transept) has been 

 removed, but I have no evidence of the time at which this was 

 done. The tower stairs lead up from this chapel. The only trace 

 of altar accessories is the recess in the south wall, which may have 

 been a piscina. 



At about the same time the west walls of the nave and north 

 aisle were built in ashlar faced masonry, each gable having a four- 

 light pointed window, both being of the same design. A diagonal 



