Visited by the Society in 1889. 



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Norman doorway of about 1120, apparently in situ, with carved 

 caps (the shafts are missing) , the opening square, and the tympanum 

 over it plain. The caps of the chancel arch are coeval with it, 

 but the restorer has mistaken the Norman volutes for owls, and has 

 given them wings and feathers I 



There is a fifteenth century doorway in the north wall of the 

 nave, with a stoup, and the buttress at the north-west angle is of 

 about the same date. 



The chancel dates from early in the fourteenth century, but only 

 parts of the windows on the south side and the piscina remain. 



The chapel was added about the middle of the fifteenth century, 

 and the piscina in the east jamb of the arch shows it to have been 

 a chantry. The window on the north has had its sill raised and 

 its head rebuilt in a square form, the old label being affixed over it 

 in a quite original fashion. The angle buttresses and plinth of 

 this part are good work. 



There is a nice piece of seventeenth century wood carving of 

 I Grinling Gibbons " type in the lectern. 



[A full account of Edington Church will appear at a later page 

 of the Magazine^ 



Church of S. James. Bratton. 



This is a perfect model of the cruciform village Church — a 

 minster on a small scale : and although there is evidence of a part 

 of the work being earlier yet it underwent such an entire re- 

 modelling early in the fifteenth century that it may be taken as 

 representing the idea then prevailing of what such a Church should 

 be, for it has had no additions, and no subsequent structural 

 alterations other than the re-building of the chancel within recent 

 years. 



The Church consists of nave of two bays with north and south 

 aisles and clerestory; north and south transepts and chancel, with 



