L30 Notes on Churches in the Neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



date than I have named : it is found, e.g., more fully developed, in 

 much later work at Great Cheverell. 



It will be observed that the walls are entirely without buttresses 

 and that the plan is curiously irregular — the north wall of the nave 

 being considerably longer than the south, and the west wall not 

 being at right angles with either (the rectification of this at the 

 east end probably accounts for the set off in the wall there), whilst 

 the inclination of the chancel towards the north is unusually marked. 



The east wall of the chancel has the unusual arrangement of two ' 

 single-light windows with a blank wall, about 5ft wide, between 

 them. These windows have semicircular heads, but the inside 

 arches are very slightly pointed, and indicate a Transitional 

 tendency. The two single-light windows in the south wall and 

 one in the north, on the other hand, are slightly pointed, both 

 inside and outside. Both east end and side windows have the 

 early feature of wide inside splays carried round the arches — the i 

 arches of the side windows (only) are slightly depressed by keeping 

 the centres from which they are struck at a point below the springing 

 level. There are traces of coeval colour decorations of the masonry | 

 pattern on one of these windows. 



A thirteenth century window exists in the north wall of the nave ! 

 near the east end, but the outer part of this has undergone some 

 seventeenth or eighteenth century modernising ; nearly opposite 

 this a two-light window of fourteenth century date has been inserted I 

 in the south wall — this has lost the outside label, which it obviously 

 once possessed. (The new two-light window in the western part 

 of this wall has been very wisely put higher — so as not to disturb 

 the older wall.) 



The north and south doorways of the nave are probably coeval ! 

 with the walls, although the outside of the one in the north wall, 

 now blocked up, was altered a century later. The three-light 

 square-headed window in the west end, which retains its old 

 stanchion and saddle bars, is an insertion of fifteenth century 

 date. 



The chancel arch, which spanned the whole width of the chancel, ' 

 had been destroyed before the recent restoration of the Church, 



