42 Opening Address to the Section of Architecture 



much in the way Wykeham treated Winchester Cathedral. The 

 nave is very stately, and the aisles shew a not very usual feature in 

 the transverse stone arches with inter-penetrating" mouldings, which 

 cross them from north to south. The masonry throughout is of 

 great excellence. While at Westhury we have an adapted building, 

 and at Mere a mixed building, at Trowbridge we have an examplo 

 of a Perpendicular Church raised from the ground, as one design 

 without any admixture of earlier style, by the munificence of the 

 inhabitants, chiefly rich clothiers, in 1475. It is a typical Church 

 of its date, with a western tower, groined within, supporting a lofty 

 stone spire, north and south porches, and a very beautiful open timber 

 roof, the whole deserving Leland's description as "lightsome 

 and fair." The font is lofty, carved with the emblems of the 

 crucifixion. Steeple Ashton, built between 1480 and 1500, by the 

 clothiers, is also a very noble Perpendicular Church exhibiting well- 

 finished masonry of the highest order of excellence. The clerestory 

 is lofty, the arcades tall and imposing, the windows large aud good. 

 Both the chancel and the nave are groined ; the former in stone, 

 the latter in wood. S. Thomas* of Salisbury, though late and 

 rather coarse, is a very good example of a rich Perpendicular town 

 Church. With its light arcades, very wide aisles, and low timber 

 ceilings, it supplies a model the designers of our town Churches 

 might do well to follow. I would except the clerestoried chancel, 

 which is of somewhat excessive length for modern requirements. 

 Perpendicular work of peculiar richness is to be found in the north- 

 east angle of the county, sometimes in the fabrics of the Churches, 

 sometimes in appended chapels and chantries. The nave of Lacock 

 is a sumptuous building, and the Lady Chapel deserves notice for 

 its fan-traceried roof and general richness of character. The Baynton 

 Chapel at Bromham is also a very gorgeous example of late Gothic, 

 with a richly panelled ceiling. We have a similar specimen in the 

 magnificent Beauchamp Chapel, at St. John's, Devizes. In the 

 same district a rich canopied niche crowning the apex of a gable is 

 by no means unfrequent ; we have good examples at Lacock and 

 St. John's, Devizes. The chancel and tower of Calne, re-built 

 after the fall of the older tower in 1645, is a very interesting 



