By C. H. Talbot 



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rest of the chapel having been coarsely 1 re-painted. It also became 

 apparent that, after the arch was bnilt and before it was painted, a 

 .low stone screen was erected across it. The arch itself appears to 

 be later than the north transept arch, as some of the respond 2 of 

 the latter was cut away for its insertion. 



The south transept was the place of sepulture of the lords of the 

 manor of Lackham, and retains a fine brass 3 to Robert Baynard, 

 Esq., and his wife, Elizabeth Ludlow, and their children, 1501. 

 This brass was, up till 1861, in its original position, with the feet 

 J to the east. It was then shifted, for convenience of the seating. 

 There are also, against the east wall of the transept, two wooden 

 tablets of some interest, both erected in 1623, to the memory of 

 Edward Baynard, Esq., who died in 1575, and Ursula, 4 the wife of 

 Sir Robert Baynard, who died in 1623. 



J The porch, at the west end of the Church, has the shield of 

 Baynard and Bluet quarterly in its groining, and was therefore 

 probably erected 5 by one of the Baynard family. 



1 The original painting is much more delicate. A record, painted under the 

 i east window of the Lady chapel and now partly scaled off, states that that 

 j aisle was repaired and the chancel re-built in 1777, which probably gives the 

 date of the re-painting. 

 J 2 A shaft is cut away in a rough manner, but these alterations are very 

 puzzling. There has been, at one time, a slanting communication, probably 

 a processional opening, from the transept to the chancel, as is shown by the 

 remains of [a long panel, with a cusped head, and against the face of this 

 panel the south respond of the west arch of the Lady chapel is built, showing 

 j that the latter is later. In this respond is constructed a somewhat rough 

 ] hagioscope, the old opening being utilised. On the north side of the same 

 1 arch are remains of a double hagioscope, of which the openings appear to have 

 been directed to the high altar and the altar of the Lady chapel respectively. 

 I 3 Figured in Kite's Brasses of Wiltshire, plate xi., and Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 * vol. iv., p. 3, but the artist has omitted the armorial shields, near the corners 

 I of the Purbeck marble slab. 



j 4 She was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Sharington, being a daughter of 

 I Olive, Sir Henry's third daughter and co-heir, by her second marriage with 

 I Sir Robert Stapylton. Sir Robert Baynard appears, when his wife died, to 

 | have put up these two tablets to her memory and that of his father. 

 1 5 It is very late, two of the pinnacles approximating to the form of some 

 I Elizabethan finials. 



