By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 297 



the north aisle, " I H 1658. W F [Ford]." The six pointed 

 arches on each side of the nave are all alike. The clerestory windows 

 were once filled with stained glass. 



Chancel. 



This is spacious, and has three lofty windows on each side, with 

 a large one at the east end. There is a series of eight canopied 

 niches with tabernacled heads : two holding headless figures. Over 

 six of the niches, as well as over two reclining figures in the north- 

 west and south-west corners, are stone corbels, which may have 

 supported a former roof. Over the altar, a late Jacobean wooden 

 reredos, which, judging by the central pilaster and keystone above, 

 appears to have formed at one time a chimney-piece in some old 

 house. The chancel is said to have been formerly ceiled with stone, 

 having the arms of BishopEdingdon on the bosses. The present ceiling 

 was substituted by Mr. Joshua Smith, of Erlestoke, about A.D. 1789. 



Interments and Monuments. 



There is a dearth of information about the burials in this Church. 

 Leland names that of Sir Richard Penley, a knight who gave West 

 Ilsley, in Berks : also, Sir John Rous, of Imber, who gave Baynton, 

 and a Willoughby. He had also u hard that one Blubyri, a preben- 

 dary of Saresbiri, executor of Bishop William Edington was buried 

 there." 1 Gereberd and Thomas Bulkington, benefactors, having 

 obits, would probably be also in the number. Perhaps Bishop 

 Ayscough : but of none of these is there now any memorial. 



Before the levelling of the chancel pavement, there used to be, 

 on the south side, near the modern door, a large blue stone with 

 sockets of a figure and shields at the corners of which only one was 

 left, bearing " On a cross five cinquefoils in a semee, or circle of 

 mullets [Edingdon] " It was removed to the west end of the 

 Church, but is not now visible. There was also on the same floor, 

 near a blocked-up door, once opening into the cloister on the north 



1 Bleobury's name does not appear as a Prebendary of Sarum in Canon W. H. 

 Jones's " Fasti," and he was probably buried at Shillingford, Berks, as mentioned 

 above, p. 271. 



