132 Notes on Churches in the Neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



interesting Transitional south doorway, the arch of which is semi- 

 circular and enriched by Early English mouldings and a dog-tooth 

 member in the label, the jambs having early-looking angle shafts. 

 The north doorway (visible only on the outside) was evidently 

 re-built and the jambs re- worked when the aisle was re-modelled, 

 and the chevron label does not fit its present position. The string 

 at the east end of the south aisle probably indicates the original 

 height of this wall. 



The chancel must have been erected soon after the completion of 

 the nave and aisles, but it marks a distinct advance in the transition 

 to the Early English, although the flat pilaster-like buttresses (with 

 splayed plinths) overlapping the angles only, prevent its being 

 considered as a specimen of that style fully developed. There are 

 two lancets with inside curtain arches in the north wall and a similar 

 one with semi circular-headed priest's door on the south. 



Westward of the latter is a coeval window, with square head 

 outside and a pointed arch inside, where the western jamb is widely 

 splayed off, and although there is now no trace of the shutter rebate 

 I have no doubt that this is a specimen of the " Sanctus " window 

 (a term I consider as more exactly defining its use than the more usual 

 terms " leper " or " low- side window ") and the wide splay was for 

 the greater convenience of the attendant at the bell. In the south 

 wall of the sanctuary is a double piscina cut in the top of a Norman 

 capital built into a shouldered-arched recess which is evidently 

 coeval with the wall, and the Early English string-course is stepped 

 up over it. 



There is no work of the Decorated period in the Church with 

 the exception, perhaps, of the east window, but this was much 

 renewed at the almost entire re-building of the east end of the 

 chancel in 1873 ; if this is a copy of the old one the latter was an 

 insertion of early in the fourteenth century. 



The tower is a good specimen of the work of the second quarter 

 of the fifteenth century, and the restriction imposed by the limits 

 of the consecrated ground is distinctly marked in its design. The 

 tower was built forward into the nave, with arches on three sides 

 communicating with nave and aisles ; buttresses were carried out 



