By Harold Brakspear, A.EJ.B.A. 



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severall of the Scutcheons." Probably the windows referred to 

 were the earlier mediaeval windows of the hall. 



The Himgerfords sold the property in 1684 to Sir Eichard Kent, 

 I M.P. for Chippenham, who in turn sold it to Sir Eichard Hart, of 

 Hanham, near Bath ; in twelve years it again changed hands, and 

 was bought by Mr. Norris, of Lincoln's Inn. He seems to have 

 made considerable alterations, as a number of the windows are of 

 this date, as well as two large fireplaces on the first floor and the 

 quaint sundial on the gable of the porch. 



A curious arrangement of the mediaeval house is a large water 

 trough built into the thickness of the wall just within the inner 

 door of the porch, probably used to water horses, which were in 

 those days conveyed from the front to the back of the house, be- 

 hind the screens of the hall, through the so-called horse-passage. 



The large gate-piers and flight of stone steps up to them, of the 

 seventeenth century, are worthy of notice, and testify to the de- 

 parted importance of this interesting old house. 



St. Margaret's. Yatton Keynell. 



Although the "restorer" has been hard at work here, there yet 

 remains a good deal of the old Church that is of interest. 



The earliest part of the present building dates from the thirteenth 

 century, and consists of the arch into the tower and the wall above 

 to the height of the nave roof, and the little trefoil-headed piscina 

 in the chancel, though whether this is in situ or not is doubtful. 



Early in the fifteenth century the whole Church' seems to have 

 been re-built, and consisted of chancel and nave with north porch 

 and western tower. Of this re-building the chancel arch remains 

 untouched, with the handsome stone screen — or, as Aubrey 1 calls it, 

 "the partition between the Church and Chancell of very curious 

 Grothique worke in freestone." In the lower panels are the arms of 

 Yeovilton, Keynell, and Chaderton. The reveals of the arches to 

 the eastern windows on either side the nave are panelled, but the 

 one to the south has lost its tracery, which was removed when the 

 aisle was added on that side. To the east of this window are the 



Jackson's Aubrey, p, 120. 



