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



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when the present one was built, together with the vestry, porch, 

 the roofs throughout and the turret. The latter takes the place 

 of a comparatively modern and poor one which previously existed 

 on the west gable. 



The font is a plain circular bowl of the tapered type with roll 

 moulding on the lower edge, standing on a circular shaft sot on a 

 square base. It is doubtless coeval with the structure. 

 There are rude sundials cut at the following points : — 

 One on the south-east quoin of the nave. 

 One on the jamb of the south window of the nave. 

 Two on the south-east quoin of the chancel. 



Ogbourne. S. Andrew. 



Plan, clerestoried nave of two bays, with aisles continued further 

 westward ; west tower ; chancel ; south porch. 



A peculiarity which strikes one approaching this Church is that 

 it is placed within 6ft. of the west boundary of the churchyard, and 

 this circumstance seems to have had great influence in its plan. 

 The nave originally consisted of three bays of Norman work, but 

 when a western tower was desired — there not being room to project 

 it beyond the nave — it was built forward into it, absorbing the 

 western bay and part of the next. This reduced the nave to its 

 present length of two bays, the aisles maintaining their original 

 dimensions. The arcades appear to be almost coeval with one 

 another, and consist of semicircular arches with broad inner and 

 shallow outer order (the former on the north side only having a 

 small chamfer) without labels. The central column on each side is 

 cylindrical, with square abacus and moulded base ; the capitals of 

 the two vary, but both are enriched with stiff conventional carving, 

 and the date may be put at 1130 — 1150. The eastern respond of 

 the north arcade has angle shafts, whilst that of the south has the 

 angles simply rounded off. 



The aisles were doubtless erected soon after the arcades, and 

 practically the whole of the walls of the south aisle and the western 

 part of the north aisle remain unaltered, including the very 



