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The Church of All Saints, Martin, Wills. 



The coeval archway into the nave remains intact ; it consists of 

 two orders of chamfers, the inner one springing from pier-shafts 

 with moulded caps and "bases. In the west wall of the lower stage 

 was a small square-headed window on each side of the central 

 buttress — one of these has been altered, as referred to later. The 

 upper stage of this early tower had lancets in the west and south 

 walls only ; the former remains intact, but the latter can only be 

 seen by a trace inside. The steep pitch of the drip course on the 

 east face of the tower is strong testimony to its having been formed to 

 follow the lines of a Norman nave roof then existing. A small two- 

 light window was inserted in the Norman south wall of the nave 

 (now between porch and chapel) near the end of the thirteenth century. 



The next alteration of the Church was the re-building of the 

 chancel, and with it, doubtless, the extension of the nave to its 

 present length ; but the evidence of the latter has been destroyed in 

 the addition of subsequent chapels (or the nave might have been 

 lengthened at an earlier period when the small south window above 

 referred to was inserted) . The chancel dates from very early in the 

 fourteenth century, and no subsequent alterations in the walls have 

 been made other than the insertion of a piscina and of the archway 

 and squint into the chapel ; the archway opening from the nave has 

 two orders of chamfers carried round arch and jambs, the inner one 

 having a curious small moulded impost or cap — no base is visible, 

 but this probably exists below the raised floor. There are two 

 two-light windows, each with trefoil in the tracery, in the south 

 wall with a priests' door between them ; a similar window exists in 

 the north wall of the sanctuary. The east window is a three-light 

 one of coeval date, with three circles in the tracery, and it is re- 

 markable that there is no cusping to the tracery of either window. 



The roof is at present ceiled underneath, but the fourteenth 

 century moulded plate is visible, and there is every reason to suppose 

 that the trussed-rafter roof of that period exists. There are no 

 buttresses or plinth to this work. 



At near the end of the fourteenth century the south porch was 

 added to the nave, and transept chapels, each of one bay, were 

 erected on the north and south of the nave, commencing at near the 



