By Harold Brakspear, A.R.I.B.A. 



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quaint little stone hood forming a shallow porch. The parapets 

 are panelled and the top stage has the triple panels as at Yatton, 

 but here all the perforated stone slabs remain in the belfry windows. 



There is a seventeenth century brass in the floor of the nave aisle. 



A well-designed mural tablet on the north wall of the chancel is 

 to the memory of the Eev. S. Arnold, and has, on a brass plate 

 beneath, the following : — 



" This plate was designed to commemorate the injury sustained by the above 

 monument from lightning on the 25th day of April last, and to record the 

 esteem in which the memory of the Rev. S. Arnold is still held by his represent- 

 atives. Novr., 1842." 



Although the monument is much crauked, no injury seems to have 

 been done to the Church, which is curious. 



St. James's. North Wraxall. 



The oldest part of this Church is the south doorway of early 

 twelfth century work. This has a detached nook shaft in either 

 jamb with cushion caps, surmounted by a semi-circular arch of two 

 members, the outer rim ornamented with chevrons and a label with 

 large bead ornamentation. All the rest of the Church appears to 

 have been re-built in the thirteenth century, and consisted of nave, 

 chancel, and western tower. 



The east window of the chancel is a triple lancet of very simple 

 design. Two single lancets are in the north wall, and an original 

 priest's doorway with good label mould is in the south wall, but 

 blocked up. The square-headed windows on each side of the door 

 were inserted towards the end of the fourteenth century — the eastern 

 one is of three lights and has a piscina cut in the sill — the western 

 one is of two lights. The arch between the chancel and nave is 

 unusually wide, being the full width of the former ; it is of two 

 members, plainly chamfered, without caps, and stopped with 

 pyramidal stops above the ground. In conjunction with the arch 

 on either side in the nave wall arc projecting string-courses, about 

 24ft. long and 8ft. above the floor, to carry the ends of the destroyed 

 rood-loft. 



In the south wall of the nave is a fine three-light window with 



