By Mr. Edward Kite. 



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THE TOWER 



is fourteen feet square inside, and ninety-one feet in height. It is 

 divided into three stages, and ascended by means of a turret, which 

 is partly engaged in the south wall and rises above the roof. At 

 the angles are bold buttresses, terminating with crocketed pinnacles, 

 above an embattled parapet ; there is also a crocketed pinnacle at 

 each set off. In the west wall of the lower stage is a doorway, with 

 a large perpendicular window consisting of two tiers, each of four 

 lights, immediately above the door. In the wall, on each side of 

 this window, is a canopied niche. 



On the north, south, and west sides of the middle stage, are 

 narrow windows, divided in the centre by a monial, and filled with 

 pierced masonry. 



In the upper stage are windows nearly corresponding with the 

 above, in couplets, excepting on the south side, where, on account 

 of the turret, there is space for one only. 



The tower opens to the nave by means of an arch forty feet in 

 height, and nine feet eight inches in span, the jambs of which are 

 ornamented with a shaft, and several orders of mouldings. The 

 groining, which is of stone, springs from a bracket-head in each 

 angle. In the centre is a circular space, floored with wood, con- 

 structed in order to admit of the raising or lowering of a bell. 



Bells. — There are six. The first, second, fifth, and tenor were 

 cast in 1663, at the foundry of William and Roger Purdue in 

 Salisbury. The fourth cast in 1696, and the third in 1701, are 

 from the foundry of William and Robert Corr at Aldbourne. The 

 inscriptions upon them are as follows: — 



1. "I am the first although, but small I will be heard above you all." 

 "Kataren Strong, Jane Drew, 1663. W.P. R.P. D.P. S.W. C.I.P. M B." 



2. "1663. T.P. Henry Johnson's Rector of this Towne." 



" I am the second in this Ring tharefore next to the will sing. R.M." 



3. " C.W. W.C., 1701. Richard Bundy and John Hill." 



4. "On Earth Bells do Ring ; in Heaven Angels Sing, Haluluiah. Rob. Cor." 

 " Oliuer Edwards, Jacob Larrance, C.W. Wil. Cor., 1696." 



5. " Gieve unto Ceasar the things that are Ceasar and unto God the things. . ." 

 " John Drew and Phillip Strong, Church Wardens, 1663. W.P. R.P." 



