The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . her Church land and other Church property, the annual proceedsmerely go to help the rate, though doubtless this was far from the intention ofthe charitable individual who gave or bequeathed it. 2 Aubrey indeed has very little to say of the parish. The following sentencescomprize the whole of his account: Yatesbuky. In the Church here is nothingto be found, neither is there any tradition that I can yet learn of any remarkablething in the parish. In the field eastwards from the towne is a barrow or two. 344 A Sketch of the Parish of Yat
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . her Church land and other Church property, the annual proceedsmerely go to help the rate, though doubtless this was far from the intention ofthe charitable individual who gave or bequeathed it. 2 Aubrey indeed has very little to say of the parish. The following sentencescomprize the whole of his account: Yatesbuky. In the Church here is nothingto be found, neither is there any tradition that I can yet learn of any remarkablething in the parish. In the field eastwards from the towne is a barrow or two. 344 A Sketch of the Parish of Yatesbury. was Norman, there was a south aisle as well, and one of its roundarches with the pillars supporting it, was disentombed from theplaster which buried it, when the Church was restored in 1854: thefont also is Norman, and an admirable example of good workmanshipof the period: it was well figured in the Builder in 1844, andI have been fortunate in securing the wood-blocks for the embellish-ment of this paper. Early in the thirteenth century the Church. Section of the Font at Yatesbury, was re-built, and the pointed arches springing from pillars withtransitional or semi-Norman mouldings mark pretty accurately thedate of such work : there is also a small triplet window at the westend of the north aisle, which was an extremely elegant specimen ofEarly English work, till the masons, in restoring it! chipped away
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