Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . of the choir, Gloucester. t Campden. 53 who built Campden House, at the beginning of the seventeenth century ;and we must assign to him the rebuilding of the porch, the caps of theturret staircases leading to the roofs at the north-west and south-westcorners of the nave, and perhaps also the battlements and pinnacles of thenave. There is a quaintly-carved niche over the fifteenth century doorwayof the porch, which must be an insertion. Most of the windows have the lozenge-shaped termination tojtheirhood moulding, which is
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . of the choir, Gloucester. t Campden. 53 who built Campden House, at the beginning of the seventeenth century ;and we must assign to him the rebuilding of the porch, the caps of theturret staircases leading to the roofs at the north-west and south-westcorners of the nave, and perhaps also the battlements and pinnacles of thenave. There is a quaintly-carved niche over the fifteenth century doorwayof the porch, which must be an insertion. Most of the windows have the lozenge-shaped termination tojtheirhood moulding, which is so characteristic of late Perpendicular; but janeof the windows of the south aisle has instead of this two human heads,with head-dresses of the time of Edward IV. The vestry, some of the brasses, a stone coffin built into the north wallof the chancel, and the mutilated font, are probably relics of the earlierchurch of Campden. All else has disappeared, except, perhaps, the lowerportions of the walls. The effigies and brasses deserve careful examination. On the north. TOMB OF SIR THOMAS SMITH, CAMPDEN CHURCH. 54 Transactions for the Year 1901. side of the altar is a canopied tomb, on the slab of which reclines thefigure of Thomas Smith, Lord of the Manor of Campden, who died in1593. Below him are his two wives : (1) Elizabeth Fitzherbert, with fivesons and four daughters, and (2) Katherine Throckmorton, with two sonsand two daughters. The arms of Smyth, sable, a fesse between three saltires or,appear, impaling those of Fitzherbert and also of Throckmorton. At thewest end of the tomb is a badge or crest consisting of two twisted head of the effigy rests on a tilting helmet, and the feet rest on a crestsimilar to the above. The armour consists of a peaked cuirass, withpauldrons, brassarts, epaulieres, &c, &c. A double chain is suspended
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