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most refined work was being done : there were doubtless good 

 and bad workmen in all ages. The recess has an ogee cusped arch, 

 the cusps diminishing in size towards the centre ; this has the nail- 

 head ornament on a flat member and very rude conventionalized 

 carving above. The pinnacles flanking the recess have equally 

 badly-carved crockets ; the terminals of these and of the arch appear 

 to be a seventeenth century restoration. 



The south porch is a fifteenth century addition and retains its 

 original roof : it has a newel staircase, but there are no indications 

 of the exit doorway or of a room over the porch — the latter would 

 have been impossible unless the roof was once higher than now. 

 There are three rude sundials cut on the south face of the porch 

 buttress. 



The nave clerestory and roof are of sixteenth century type ; there 

 are no cusps to the windows, the roof is of the cambered tie-beam 

 form. 



The chancel and tower have been erected probably within the 

 last fifty years, when the east and west arches of the nave were 

 copied from the old arcades. The roof of the south aisle was, I 

 believe, renewed six or seven years ago. 



The font is modern, but Grough 1 speaks of one of circa 1280, 

 which would correspond with the date at which I have put the 

 re-building of the Church. 



There is an interesting painted wood monument in the north 

 aisle to " William Lacy, alias Hedges, of Kingsdown/' dated 1645 ; 

 also an alabaster one, dated 1649, to " Catharine Hedges, alias 

 Lacey de Kingsdowne. A. marble tablet to Rev. Mr. Wallinger 

 Goodinge, 1787, and a brass to Catherine Wakeman, of Myth 

 (Gloucestershire), 1649. 



There is no evidence of a provision for bells in the original 

 Church — it is not improbable that a bell-cot stood over the cast 

 wall of the Nave, and has disappeared with the other external 

 features. 



It may be of interest to add that Walter Rodbourn, or de Merton, 



1 Sep. Mou., ii., i». 1. tab 8. 



