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li is peife^rtly plain and unadorned-, wichout painted glafs, carved 
\«ork, fculpture, or tracery. But when 1 fay it has no claim to 
antiquity, I would mean to be underftood of the fabric in general; 
for the pillars which fupport the roof are undoubtedly old, being 
of that low-, -fquar, thick order, ufually called Saxon. I'hefe, I 
fliould imagine, upheld the roof of a former church, which, 
falling into decay, was rebuilt on thofe malfy props, becaufe their 
firength had preferved them from the injuries of time". Upon 
thefe reH; blunt goihic arches, fuch as prevailed in the reign above- 
mentioned, and by which, as a criterion, we would prove the 
date of the building. 
• At the bottom of the fouth aiie, between the weft and fouth 
doors, ftands the font, which is deep and capacious, and confifis 
of three mafly round ftones, piled one on another, without the 
leaft ornament or fculpture : the cavity at the top is lined with 
kad, and has a pipe at bottom to convey off the water after the 
facred ceremony is performed. 
The eaft end of the fouth aile is called the South Chincel, and, till 
within thefe thirty years, was divided off by old carved gothic frame- 
work of timber, having been a private chantry. In this opinion 
we are more x:onfirmed by obferving two gothk niches v/ithin the 
fpace, the one in the eaft wall and the other in the fouth, near 
which there probably ftood images and altars. 
- In the middle aile there is nothing remarkable ; but I re- 
member when it's beams were hung with garlands in honour of 
" In the fame manner, to compare great things with Ihiall, did Wykeham, when he 
".-new-built the cathedral at Winchefler, from the tower wellward, apply to his purpofe 
,the old piers or pillars of Bifliop Walkelins church, by blending Saxon and Gothic 
architefture together. See iow///s Life of Wykeham. 
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