\ Congress of British ArcJueological Association at Devizes. 



" The addition of side aisles and the cutting* away of the basement i| 

 of the staircase turret, is stated to have taken place in the fifteenth 

 century ; the residence of Duke Humphrey in the castle having" 11 

 given an impetus to ecclesiastical architecture. To the same period I 

 is also attributed the alteration of the windows of the transepts. 



" On the north and south of the chancel are two private chapels, 

 both of Late Perpendicular character, the more florid being* at- I 

 tributed to Beauchamp, who held the town and castle for Edward | 

 IV. : the other is stated to have been built by Richard Coventry. | 

 On the moulding of the window of that on the north side traces of I 

 lettering were found, decipherable on one side of the window, which 

 contained the sentence, ' Orate P Bono Statu Ricardi Lamb/ j 

 There was formerly an altar here, and in the decoration of the chapel 

 the device of a rudder was used, found also in other Wiltshire 

 Churches : the roofs of the chapels are of oak admirably carved. ] 

 On the exterier of the south chapel the buttresses are highly de- I 

 corated, and the embattled parapet ornamented with square panels, 

 containing cjuatrefoils and a row of Tudor roses. 

 , " The Norman nave has almost entirely disappeared, though on the 

 east wall, which is, of course, part of the Norman tower, there 

 remains a patch of diaper-work. I should add also that the abacus 

 of the capitals of the tower pillars is ornamented with triangular 

 indentations, like the impression of the point of a trowel on clay or 

 mortar : and all the arches show foliage and zigzag mouldings/* 



Dr. Burges then stated that he proposed to open the lantern of 

 the tower, and so reveal the beautiful Norman arcading in the upper 

 part, now hidden by a lath-and-plaster ceiling; he also mentioned 

 other alterations contemplated. The registers (he said) commence 

 in October, 1559 : the overseers'' book in 1613 : the church wardens' 

 book in 1762. The Church plate is of no interest, and for the in- 

 scriptions on the eight bells the reader is referred^to a former volume 

 of the Magaziue, 1 There is one monumental brass of ancient date, 

 that of John Kent, A.D. 1630. 2 



Mr. Loftus Brock, F.S. A., said Dr. Burges deserved their thanks 

 1 Vol. ii., p. 350. 

 2 See Kite's Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire, p. 85. 



