36 The Church of All Saints. The Leigh. 



prepared of the whole of the old building, with full details of 



the various worked parts, in which every stone and joint were 



shown. Before any pulling down was begun the whitewash was 



carefully scaled off the face of the inside plastering in search for 



mural decorations- the only evidences of mediaeval work we found 



in this way were drawings of two human feet, about one-third 



larger than full size, in brown outline, on the south wall of the 



nave, but the removal of the tower exposed a very perfect bit of 



late thirteenth century work in imitation of the joints of masonry 



—the joints in yellow with a thin chocolate line on either side, and 



the blocks filled in with stems terminating in a pointed trefoil leaf 



with a plum-coloured flower of five petals in the centre of each 



block. Besides these there were the Lord's Prayer, the Decalogue, 



and numerous texts of Scripture, in panels, with elaborate scroll 



mantling. A record of the doing of this was thus written by the 



painter on the south wall of the nave :— 



"This Chancel 

 was ornamented in the year 

 of our Lord mdccxxvi 

 John Tucker 

 John Large Church 

 Wardens 



Swindon Feb. 

 Mdccxxvi." 



Careful coloured tracings were made of these, and after that haj 

 been done the fittings were removed, the timbers of the roof an| 

 tower marked, and the demolition and re- construction carried ou 

 with great care by the builders, Messrs. Light & Smith, of Chipped 

 ham. The roof of the porch was removed without being takej 

 apart. In the re- construction the porch was put on the north sil 

 to meet the exigencies of the new site ; the displaced tracery of t| 

 fourteenth century window on the south side of the nave replaced 

 the gallery and a nineteenth century window omitted ; otherwif 

 the nave, tower, and porch of the Church stand on the new si 

 exactly as they did on the old one, every wrought stone and eveij 

 timber retaining its former position. 



