By 0. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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it that we need have no hesitation in concluding that this great 

 work was commenced during his tenure of the rectory and finished 

 (with perhaps the exception of the tower) "before 1470. It was 

 commenced at the east end by the raising of the chancel and the 

 insertion of the present east window. This east window is a pointed 

 one of five lights, in Chilmark stone, it has three small orders of 

 chamfers on the outside of the jambs and arch, and one inside and 

 out on the mullions and tracery ; the latter is of Transitional type, 

 and in general form might be taken to be earlier than that in the 

 north chapel, but a careful study of its details shows that it is 

 slightly later. The added part of the east wall is of rubble masonry 

 like the thirteenth century work below, and the east end of the 

 chapel, into which it is bonded. The chancel has three clerestory 

 windows of two lights on the south with cinquefoil cusping. An 

 interesting relic of the period between the raising of the north 

 chapel and that of the chancel is preserved in the stone shoot which 

 came at the end of the gutter between the roofs as they then 

 existed. A second piscina was formed in the south wall farther 

 east, the older one being probably found to be inconveniently far 

 westward. 686579 



The Dean having performed his part, the Vicar, the landowners, 

 and parishioners were not slow to follow, and it must be admitted 

 that the}^ carried out their share in a magnificent manner. The 

 re-modelling consisted in the raising of the chancel arch and of the 

 western arch of the arcade in the south wall of the north chapel — 

 the latter evidently for the purpose of an organ-loft — the blocking 

 up of the rood stairs (of which more later), the entire re-building 

 of the north and south arcades with clerestory, the nave roof With 

 turret for sanctus bell on the east gable, the re-building of the 

 tower with the exception of the lower part of its east wall, and (a 

 little later) the insertion of the arch in the latter. At the same 

 time a new rood-screen was erected. I will now proceed to describe 

 these works in the above order. 



The whole of the stone used for the internal features in this work 

 (with the exception of a small quantity of Chilmark) is an oolite 

 from Doulting, Somerset, and the point from which the chancel 



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