By C. E. Pouting, F.8.A. 



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shield standing on a twisted shaft, the whole being about 8ft. high. 

 The shield has the Q-oddard arms and the date 1704 on both faces, 

 as a crest a cherub's head and wings flanked by scrolls. This is 

 said to have been the support to the west gallery. 



The pulpit is an oak one of Elizabethan work on a modern base, 

 and around the lower part are mitred pieces of inserted carving 

 from a fifteenth century screen — this might have been placed here 

 when the rood-loft was removed in accordance with the order of 

 1562. I gather from some old MS. notes by Mr. R. Mullings, of 

 Cirencester, in the Devizes Museum, that there are six bells, cast 

 by Abraham Eudhall in 1709. These notes (which were presumably 

 made before the Church was restored) go on to say : — " The pulpit 

 and manor pew are curious specimens of carving of the seventeenth 

 century. At the west end a few of the open seats remain." 

 4 ' There is a west gallery." Parts of the pew have been made up 

 into an interesting altar, together with other bits of carving from 

 the screen. 



The old chalice left for this parish in 1553 weighed 12oz., but 

 an entry in the vestry book under date 29th March, 1864, tells us 

 that the churchwardens were authorized to sell it, and this seems 

 to have been done and a new one purchased. 



The Church of S. Anne, Little Hinton. 



This Church consists of chancel, nave with north and south aisles 

 of two bays, south porch and western tower, and with the exception 

 of the latter two additions it probably remains about the same size 

 as it was in the later Norman period. 



Here we have the very common condition of the earliest work 

 being on the north side with the south side following shortly after. 

 I think this may be taken to indicate that the existing structure 

 takes the place of an earlier one, and that the old gave way to 

 to the new b^ degrees, the north side first. That this was the case 



