By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 353 



The pulpit is a late Jacobean one of no great pretensions, but it 

 is suitable, and has been in the Church for a long time. I was 

 glad, therefore, to have been instrumental in frustrating a recent 

 proposal to replace it by a modern one mad$ for some other Church. 



The Church of All Saints. Netheravon. 



There are few Churches in Wilts which possess greater interests 

 of a special kind than this, and its tower must take a high place 

 in the list of early towers in this country, while it has features 

 which cannot be claimed by any other, so far as my investigations 

 have enabled me to judge. 



I first inspected it carefully in April, 1886, and some two years 

 later I prepared the drawings now reproduced. 



The Church consists of a clerestoried nave of four bays, with 

 north and south aisles, chancel, and western tower. A porch was 

 erected at the east end of the south aisle late in the 16th century, 

 to afford the lord of the manor separate access to the chancel. 



The tower is a remarkable structure. It is about 21ft. square 

 at the base and 68ft. in height to the top of the parapet ; built of 

 flint rubble, and has the (apparently) original plaster on the outer 

 face, flush with the wrought quoins. The walls are vertical in- 

 ternally, without batter or set-off ; externally they batter slightly 

 below, and also, apparently, above the set-off of 3in. which divides 

 the tall lower stage from the upper. 



In the west wall is an archway (A) now forming the portal, 

 which is the most striking feature. It is 7ft. lOin. wide between 

 the jambs, and 15ft. high to the soffit, and there is no evidence of 

 its ever having been intended to be blocked by doors, as at present. 

 The arch is a round one, stilted, of one order of mouldings — a bold 

 roll on each edge ; the jambs consist of two simple half -columns 

 on each, of equal size, with cushion capitals with volutes and rude 

 incised sculpture — apparently a lion on one side and an ape on the 



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