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Notes on the Churches 



north is to Elizabeth, Lady Armand, 1 who died about 1490, and 

 whose son, Richard, founded this chapel : this brass — as well as the 

 one on the floor to her grandson, John Baynton, 2 who died in 1516, 

 is richly decorated with coloured enamel. The Purbeck marble 

 tomb on the south, to Sir Richard Baynton and family, 8 (bearing 

 date 1578) presents an interesting combination of Gothic and 

 Renaissance detail — the former style lingers in the base moulding, 

 the cusped panels, and the cornice. It will be noticed that benches 

 are carried along the south side under the windows of both chapel 

 and transept, and that the original oak screen divides the one from 

 the other. 



The upper part of the tower, and the spire, with the quaint square 

 stair-turret, are also good Perpendicular work, and I notice that the 

 form of the weather-cock is identical with that of the one of the 

 same period which was unearthed and set up on its former perch at 

 Bishops Cannings, and of which I gave a drawing in a former 

 number of the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine.* The rood-loft 

 (as at Bishops Cannings and other places) probably had an outside 

 staircase, and the doorway through the wall can still be traced. 



There are interesting monuments bearing date 1610 and 1618 in 

 the north wall of nave, and also part of a richly-carved fifteenth 

 century capital built in. The font is of a nondescript type. 



Church of S. Syriac. Lacock. 



Some members of the party had the privilege of hearing this 

 Church described by Mr. C. H. Talbot, who has devoted so much 

 time to the study of the many archaeological treasures at Lacock, 

 but in the absence of any full report of his address I venture to 

 print the notes I had previously made. 



This — unlike Calne and Bromham — is a cruciform Church without 

 central tower, and it has no work earlier than the fourteenth century. 



1 Kite's Wilts Brasses, p. 35. 



2 Ibid, p. 45. 



3 Ibid, p. 63. 



* Vol. xxiii., p. 12. 



