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remains of a circular staircase which led to the rood loft and i|| 

 originally showed externally. 1 



The north porch is a handsome piece of work, and has in each ill 

 side wall a curious little square window, which was originally I 

 quatrefoiled, but the cusps have been chopped away. 



The tower — very similar to two others we shall see to-day, viz., 

 Nettleton and West Kington — is square on plan, without angle t 

 buttresses, or west doorway ; it is divided into four stages by string I 

 courses, the topmost being panelled into three divisions on each face, 1 

 the centre division pierced for the belfry windows, which were pro- I 

 tected by perforated traceried stone slabs, only one of which remains, 

 in the south window. The sizes of the walling stones are remark- • 

 able, many being over 5ft., and one 7ft. in length ; these doubtless 

 were procured from the quarries in the immediate neighbourhood, 

 one of which still belongs to the glebe, but is not at present worked. | 



At the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century 

 the south aisle was added : one of the side windows is original 

 ex cept the heads of the lights, but the other two are restorations. 



The little vestry on the north side of the chancel is modern, but 

 the priest's door of the fifteenth century now connects it with the 

 chancel. 



The chancel itself is mostly modern, but retains the fifteenth 

 century gable cross at the east end. The old chancel was for many 

 years used as a school, and among the pupils of the seventeenth 

 century was the often- quoted authority, John Aubrey, 1 who says of 

 this Church that " the pulpit is of stone the most curious carving in 

 our country " ; also " I have heard my grandfather say that when 

 he went to school in this Church, in the S. windowe of the Chancell 

 were several escutcheons." 



The stone pulpit, unfortunately, is no more, and doubtless gave 

 place in the last century to the box-like structure which now serves 

 for that purpose. 



St. Mary's. Nettleton. 

 The Church of Nettleton parish is situated in the hamlet of 



1 Jackson's Aubrey, p. 121. 



