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each end ; but the centre portion of the wall has been re-built in 

 Georgian times, when the great Doric porch and the pseudo-Gothic 

 window on each side were added. Although the tracery of the west 

 window is fifteenth century, the rerearch is fourteenth century. 



The west gable of the nave is of the same date — fourteenth 

 century. One of the original buttresses with steep weathering jj 

 remains on the north side, but the corresponding one to the south! 

 was destroyed when the modern staircase to the gallery was built t 

 at the time the aisle was added. The west window arch with label 

 is original, with fifteenth century tracery put in at the same time as : 

 the square-headed doorway below, which has well and richly-carved ij 

 spandrils. 



The font is fifteenth century, octagonal on plan, and very similar 

 in design to that at Corsham. 



The south aisle was added in 1840, in a very poor type of 

 Perpendicular. 



Haselbury House. 



The present house is in plan practically that of the fifteenth « 

 century, built, as Leland says, by " old Mr. Boneham's father," but * 

 the upper part of the walls, gables, and chimney are mostly seven- 1 

 teenth century of the time of the Spekes with modern sash windows \ 

 inserted in place of many of the mullioned ones. 



Upon examination the fifteenth century plan is easily traced, j 

 and closely resembles those of the contemporary manor houses of ! 

 South Wraxall and Great Chalfield. A hall of one storey occupies 

 the centre (now cut up into separate rooms) , and is flanked at each 

 end by a two-storied cross wing projecting beyond the hall both 1 

 front and back. The hall would be originally entered through a 

 porch, on the site of the present entrance, which has entirely dis- 

 appeared. The two-storied wing to the right would be occupied, | ; 

 as at present, by the kitchen offices on the ground-floor, but appears 

 to have had a room of considerable importance on the floor above, 

 as there yet remains a buttress in the centre of the front gable 

 corbelled out at the top to carry an oriel, as at Bewley and Chalfield. I 

 At the back of this wing, facing the inner court, is a good specimen I 



