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h 1890. 



By C. K Ponting, F.S.A. 



[uFor /Stf. John's and St. Mary's, Devizes, see Wilts Mag., vol. ii., 213 ; 

 for Potterne, vol. xvL, p. 274.] 



S. Mary's. Market Lavington. 



HE plan of this Church consists of nave with north and south 

 aisles, south porch, western tower, and chancel, with a 

 sacristy on the north side of the latter, all ancient. 



That a Norman Church stood here is shown by the pieces of stone 

 ornament, including the chevron and billet moulds of that period, 

 which are built into the walls of the porch and outside of the east 

 end of the nave — these were found during the restoration of the 

 Church in 1862. 



There is also a distinct and interesting feature of the same date 

 — though it does not occupy its old position — the bowl of a stoup, 

 now in the vestry and forming a piscina. The narrowness of the 

 south aisle also indicates an early foundation. 



The nave and aisles were apparently re-built very early in the 

 fourteenth century — the period to which I assign the south arcade 

 and two bays of that on the north (both having square piers on 

 chamfered bases), also the door and west and east windows of the 

 north aisle and the lower part of the walls of the south aisle. It 

 will be observed that the westernmost arch of the north aisle was 

 formed at a later date, the inner order of the chamfered arch does 

 not die out on the face of the piers as in the case of the rest, but is 

 carried down to the bottom of the respond on one side, and corbelled 

 out against the pier on the other. The stop on the pier was then 

 worked to match the earlier one on the other angles, but no such 

 stop occurs on the respond. 



