[24 Notes on Churches in the Neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



addition of the diagonal buttress at the north-west angle, and the 

 continuation of its base along the west side (on the north side the 

 connection of the late with the early work is clearly traceable, and 

 the stonework of the two periods above the string-course is not flush) ; 

 also the insertion of a string-course in th© west face, dividing the 

 early work into two stages. 



At the time when the tower was raised the clerestory was added 

 to the nave, and the present low-pitched roof put on. The clerestory 

 had two single-light windows with square heads and labels on the 

 north side and three on the south, but the middle one here has 

 given way to a hideous bit of modern Gothic in cast iron ! 



The roof has been embellished by early seventeenth century 

 additions, but it is not difficult to distinguish between the Per- 

 pendicular and the J acobean work ; the former consists of three 

 main and two wall-trusses of king-post type having curious 

 pendants under the king-posts, which latter are themselves wider 

 than the tie-beams and corbelled out at the sides ; the wall plate is 

 moulded and has a sunk aroading above it which is returned on the 

 end tie-beams. The purlins have carved pendants on each side of 

 the tie-beam ; the stone corbels are moulded. The re-modelling 

 consisted of a flat ceiling at the purlin level, and carried down the 

 rafters below this, the spaces between the main timbers being treated 

 as panels with leaves of plaster in the angles. The tie-beams were 

 surmounted hy a sort of cap (? of plaster or wood), shaped like the 

 early corbels of the chancel arch, and painted to match the timbers. 



The chancel doubtless also has its fifteenth century roof, as the 

 cornice is visible, but the rest is concealed by a Jacobean ceiling 

 with ribs and enrichments modelled in plaster. 



The east bay of the south aisle, which was re-built in the fifteen th 

 century, was probably then founded as a chapel ; two corbels exist, 

 one carved to represent the head of a bishop, and the other that of 

 a king. 



There are bits of fifteenth century glass in the two north and one 

 of the south windows of the chancel, also in the east window, in- 

 cluding two almost complete figures, one of which is an archbishop 

 with cross and bears the word AugmUrm, 



