142 Notes on Churches in the Neighbourhood of Marlborough. 



coursed Hints, after the manner so usual in the eastern counties, 

 which (unlike those of the chancel) were always exposed, and 

 the ■ interstices are filled with flint chippings, and never appear 

 to have been pointed. The transepts are uniform in plan and 

 design, and have gabled buttresses standing square at the angles, 

 built entirely of wrought Bath stone, as also is the splayed base 

 carried round the whole, including the buttresses. In the gable of 

 each is a three-light window with tracery of refined design, neither 

 quite " Geometrical," nor quite " Flowing," but a compromise 

 between the two ; the outer arches are of ogee form, the label 

 springs from corbel-heads, and following the same line finishes in a 

 foliated terminal. In the west wall is a two-light window more 

 geometrical in design, with pointed arch. In the east wall are two 

 similar windows. All these have moulded inside curtain arches. 

 The old roof corbel-heads remain, representing, in the north transept, 

 two kings and one bishop in the east wall, and two bishops and one king 

 in the west ; the inverse order being followed in the south transept. 



In the south wall of the south transept is a recessed tomb of two 

 bays of moulded two-centred segmental arches ; in the east bay is 

 the effigy of a knight — said to represent Sir Adam de Stokke — 

 cross-legged, wearing chain armour ; under the western bay is a 

 Purbeck slab bearing the matrix of a brass cross and an indistinct 

 inscription which is thus preserved by Stukeley : — " Eoger . de . 

 Stocre . chev . ici . gycht . Deu . de . sa . alme . eyt . merci." — to 

 the memory of Sir Eoger de Stokke, supposed to be a son of Sir 

 Adam. (This appears to support my opinion that the transepts 

 were erected after the death of the founder.) The back of the latter 

 recess is traceried, while the former is plain. In the south-east 

 angle is the bowl of a piscina consisting of a head with oak leaves 

 growing out of the mouth and branching off from the nose ; over it 

 is the canopy (the terminal being a copy in plaster of the one in 

 the chancel), both have been removed from their former position. 

 The arches of the tower crossing are of two orders of chamfers 

 carried down the piers, the arches are acutely pointed, and this 

 especially in the case of those on the east and west sides, which are 

 narrower than the others ; all have labels with terminals of heads 



