By C. E. Pouting, Esq. £43 



is a brass with the demi-effigies of Thomas and Edith Polton, and 

 the following inscription : — 



"Iflarmoreo lapfoe Efjomas jaeet fjtc & ©ritfja 

 ©ue f olton bita qutsque bocafaat tta 

 ®uos mors expitltt ijmc mtlleno Hirsts atma 

 ©uatirmgenteno tiecto qutfms atiim* octo, 

 SEnUetta luee Septemfcrtg fjunc, tiuotiena 

 pjane ffeforui, gratuens funKas pcamma plena, 

 ©cto q^ nator' totqj; sttarum 

 CMlestum earum ctreuetmti0 Sarum 

 5£x Obtcu quor' aHatifcerg curatus Ijafcelut 

 ©uatuor atqj. tiecem numos que rite tenetitt 

 $ogt ortu matrts tint tmtca Hie sequente 

 ISllermts &e & Salle plage Manners retmente*" 



It would appear from this that both died in the same year, " the 

 year of the Virgin, 1418/' leaving eight sons and eight daughters. 



It is probable that the Thomas and Edith Polton who are thus 

 commemorated erected the "body of the Church " referred to by 

 Captain Symonds and to which I have assigned the period of 1380 

 to 1400. 



I was recently consulted as to a repair of the Church, and amongst 

 other things the state of the inside plastering of the walls had to 

 be considered ; this was very thick and had apparently been done 

 when the roofs were renewed : it had become much perished, and 

 the surface had been recently distemper-coloured. On removing a 

 portion of the plastering we found that the joints of the masonry 

 in the nave and aisles had originally been struck on the inside, the 

 surfaces to be treated in colouring having been subsequently pre- 

 pared by a thin coating of white mortar laid over this pointing. 

 This determined the course to be adopted, the plastering was stripped 

 off and the defective pointing renewed. In doing this traces of 

 colouring were found on the east walls of the two chapels, but this 

 had been so much injured in erecting tablets and in plastering the 

 walls that it was impossible to decipher or preserve any parts of it. 



