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Plan and section of double pit in Battlesbury Camp, 1922 Objects of Iron and Bone from Pits in Battlesbury Camp, 1922 DEVIZES:-C. H. WOODWARD, EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, STATION ROAD. THE WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 66 MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS."-Ovid. No. CXXXIX. DECEMBER, 1923. VOL. XLII. NOTES ON WILTSHIRE CHURCHES. By SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE. (Continued from p. 214.) Chirton. S. John. [May 14th, 1859.] A Church of interest and in very good condition. It consists of nave with north and south aisles, chancel, western tower, and south porch. The aisles have lead roofs. The nave and chancel and porch covered with tiles. The nave has Norman arcades: on each side three plain (-?) low semicircular arches with circular columns having octagonal capitals. Those on the north have foliage, those on the south plainer but varying, and all rather late in the style. The doorway within the porch is also Norman with some ornament. The inner member of the arch has beaded chevron continued down the jambs, the outer has a cylindrical moulding with bead heads over it, upon shafts with beaded abaci and horizontal bands at intervals on the shafts. The roof of the nave is open, with tie beams. The tower arch pointed, rising at once from the wall without corbels or caps. The windows of the aisles are Decorated, mostly square headed of two and three lights; but pointed and of three lights at the east of the north aisle and at the west of the south aisle. In many of them is much new stained glass. The organ is placed in the north aisle; the whole renewed and refitted within. The chancel arch is obtuse and appears to be modern; and there is a low stone screen across it. The chancel is Decorated, the east window of three lights, those north and south of two lights. On the south a priest's door; and the south-east window has a sedile in its prolonged sill, and in the angle a piscina, simply a stone (?) without fenestella(?), having a trefoil orifice. In the north-east is the vestry. The chancel is stalled and has a lectern, and is laid with new tiles. The tower is Perpendicular, and has battlement and corner butresses, west window of three lights, belfry windows of two lights, and two string courses. There is a piscina near the east end of the south aisle with ogee canopy and quatrefoil orifice. The font is fine Norman, the bowl circular, surrounded by an arcade having shafts. The arches contain figures of the Apostles, and round the top of the bowl a border of foliage, and also toward the base. The walls have been partly rebuilt. The vestry is new. VOL. XLII.-NO. CXXXIX. U Nunton. [20th Feb., 1872.] A small Church restored by T. H. Wyatt, consisting of nave and chancel, each with south aisle, and west tower engaged in the west end of the aisle. The tower seems to be mostly new, and is of flint and stone, with parapet, but rather low. The arcade of the nave has two Early English pointed arches on circular columns with capitals. Another pointed arch opens to the tower. The chancel arch is Early English, on sort of pilasters having the early hollow square ornament. The chancel is divided from its aisle by two very plain Early English arches with square pier having impost. On the north of the chancel are trefoil-headed lancets. The east window is of three lights-geometrical. The south chancel aisle has Perpendicular square-headed windows and a pointed arch between it and the aisle of the nave. In the nave the windows are new, mostly Decorated. The seats are all open. Odstock. St. Mary. [Feb. 20th, 1872.] This Church has a lofty nave and chancel-with western tower, mostly of flints. The chancel is Early English, has eastern triplet and single lancets north and south. The nave also has lancets; on each side a double lancet set high, and some single. Chancel 22ft. long, 11ft. 9in. wide. Nave 42ft. long, 23ft. wide. The arches to the chancel and tower are plain pointed. There is a piscina on the south side near the east end of the nave. The north and south doorways are similar, of two-chamfered order. There is much chequered masonry of flint and stone both in the tower and nave. The tower is very low, rising little above the roof of the nave; its upper part is Perpendicular with battlement, square-beaded two-light belfry windows, and corner buttresses. On the west side is a three-light Perpendicular window. On the north of the tower is a very large projection of irregular polygonal form containing single lancets, and not reaching to the upper part of the tower. The pulpit of carved wood, temp. Elizabeth, bears date 1580. Ogbourne St. Andrew. [June, 1845.] A small Church with portions of several styles. The plan is a short nave with narrow aisles, a chancel, south porch, and tower engaged with the west end of the nave. The exterior has very much of a Third Pointed appearance of which character are the aisle windows, which are mostly square-headed of two or four lights. The clerestory has also square-headed windows. The roofs are (-?) without parapets, but the chancel has a slated roof. The tower stands upon three pointed arches opening internally to the nave and aisles, which have mouldings and shafts; its character is entirely Third Pointed. Within it is a fine stone groined roof with elegant bosses. Externally it has an unfinished battlement, and an octagonal turret at the south-west angle. The belfry windows of two lights, and near that on the east side a small niche. On the west side a three-light late window, and beneath it a door with hood on corbel. In the second stage on the south is a square-headed window. The piers of the tower are very strong. The south porch is modern. Within it is a roundarched doorway which, together with the arcades of the nave, is late or transitional Norman. It has one moulding with the toothed ornament, the other with a cylinder and small shafts. Near the door is a (—?). The interior of the nave, though lofty, is confined and much encumbered with pews, besides the encroachment of a hideous gallery against the tower arch, which further contracts the already contracted nave. Eastward of the tower the nave has two round arches, of a semi-Norman character, frequent in this part of Wiltshire, and having plain soffits without moulding. The columns are circular, having square abaci and some rude foliage in the capitals, the bases square. The foliage varies on each side, and on the north has something like volutes. The south-east respond has an abacus with a beaded moulding. The roof of the nave has an embattled cornice and is painted. There is no chancel arch, but there are stone brackets on the wall which must have supported the screen. On the south a hagioscope from the aisle. The chancel has been ceiled. It has on each side two plain lancets and on the south an obtuse-headed door, now closed. The east window is Middle Pointed, of three lights. The altar is of deal, very mean and covered with dirty green baize. On the south side of the altar is a curious double piscina, under a recess of flattened trefoil form, and the lower part having the scalloped ornament. A string runs above it, which is carried down under a small oblong aumbry retaining its original wooden door and iron bar in front. The south west window of the chancel is a lychnoscope and somewhat flattened in its arch. On the south side of the chancel is a large monument to Wm. Goddard, Esq., and Elizabeth, his wife, 1655. The whole family represented kneeling. All the children but one carry sculls, and between the two old people is a scull. The font has a plain octagonal bowl on a stem of like form. Ogbourne St. George. [June, 1845.] A larger Church than the preceding and consisting of a chancel and nave with side aisles, a western tower, and a south porch. The external appearance is Third Pointed, but within there is some of the First Pointed work so common in the neighbourhood. The porch and south aisle have moulded parapets, but the rest of the Church has none. The tower is Third Pointed, three stages in height, and embattled, having large and bold gargoyles and a stair-turret on the south, not carried up to the top, and corner buttresses. On the west side is a three-light window, those of the belfry are of two lights. The west door is closed. The north side of the Church is, as usual, the plainest. The south porch has its outer doorway with continued mouldings. Over the inner door is a rich canopied niche. On the north side the door is set unusually far to the east. The windows of the aisles are square-headed of three and four lights; those of the clerestory similar of two lights. The nave has on each side an arcade of First Pointed character, having three arches rising from circular columns with rather early capitals and varying. Those on the south are of the best work and have fine mouldings, with head corbels supporting the hoods. On the north the capitals have circular mouldings, and one a square base. On the south the capitals exhibit a kind of rude foliage, as at Collingbourne Kingston, and in the responds scalloped. The roof of the nave has some tolerable bosses and pierced tracery above the beams. The tower arch is open and has continuous mouldings, as has also the chancel arch, which is less lofty. The pews, etc., are not better than usual. In the chancel arch is the rood screen having |