236 The Churches of Burton and Wanbofough. 



Corbels (6). 



Inside. 



One in east wall of south transept 



One in east wall of north transept 



Two in jambs of archway in east wall of do. 



Two in west wall of north aisle. 



Aubrey, writing of this Church, 1659-70, says 1 " This is a 

 very faire Church, sometime doubtless a place of great devotion, as 

 appeares by those many niches in the walles within and without to 

 set images in, &c. At the East end of the Chancell without are 

 two Angells holding some kind of vegetative between them, which 

 I suppose to be either a laurel or olive branch. 



" All the windowes in the Chancell are seminated all over with 

 estoiles or starres of 6 points. 



" On the North side of the Altar, in the wall, is an old marble 

 tombe, but the Inscription with coates of armes being in brasse, on 

 purpose to perpetuate the memories of the dead, gave occasion to 

 sacrilegious hands to teare them away. 



" In this Church have been very fine paynted glasse, but now so 

 broken and mangled, that there is little to be recovered." 



The sculptured panel, 15iin. high and 13in. wide, under the east 

 window outside, which Aubrey describes as " Angells holding a 

 laurel or olive branch," is shewn in Plate II., Fig. 3. The subject 

 appears to be, undoubtedly, the Annunciation, and a flat cusped 

 canopy (now much mutilated), projects over the figures. This 

 panel, which is coeval with the window above, possibly commemo- 

 rates a re-dedication of the Church, and there appears to be some 

 doubt as to the former dedication. 



Canon Jackson 2 states that in a Fine of Edw. III. (1336) the 

 Church is called St. Nicholas, whilst local tradition ascribes it to 

 St. Michael, and the fact that the village feast falls on the Sunday 

 within the octave of St. Michael's Day seems to lend colour to 

 this view. 



There are fragments of fifteenth century glass in the windows of 



1 Jackson's Aubrey, p. 155. 

 2 Ibid. 



