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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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t wide, with Vestry on the north side 14 feetby 11 feet; North and South Aisles each 73 feet long by 15 feetwide; North and South Chapels, each adjoining the chancel, andeach open both to the chancel and to its respective aisle ; thenorth chapel 13 ft. long by 15 ft. wide; the south chapel 21 ft.long by 16 ft. wide ; and South Porch 12 ft. square (See PI. IV.) The Nave, of six bays, is divided from the aisles by tall andslender piers, only 2 feet in diameter, carrying a lofty clerestoryhaving six windows on each side. It will l)e observed that thewindows on the south side are not exactly over the crowns of thearches, and that the circular string moulding finishes ofl differentlyon this side at the eastern gable. So slight an arcade was neverintended to carry the weight of the clerestory. The nave hadoriginally a high-pitched roof which was taken down and replacedby the clerestory and by a roof of almost the present form butrather flatter in 1599, that date being found carved on one of
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THOENBaRY Church 83 the old beams—the second from the tower arch—when the cleres-tory was re-built and the roof renewed in 1848. The corbelswhich support the brackets of the roof were originally of wood;in 1848 the present ones of stone were substituted for them. Theyare emblazoned with the following arms :—, North Side (Lay) South Side (Ecclesiastical), 1. William Eufus 1. England 2. Fitz Hamon 2. Tewkesbury Abbey 3. Robert of Gloucester 3. See of Canterbury 4. De Clare 4. See of Gloucester 5. De Audley 5. See of Bristol 6. Stafford 6. Christ Church, Oxford 7. Howard 7. Townshend, of Castle Townshend The Stone Pulpit, figured in Lysonss Gloucestershire Antiqu-ities (Plate cvii.), is of the same date as the nave. The semi-Norman Font, figured in the same work (Plate xxx.) and in YanVoorsts History of Baptismal Fonts, has been already mentioned.The lectern was carved in 1879 by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter,out of an oak beam 663 years old, from the choir of SalisburyCathedral. The C

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