timber-work,
South Window, c. 1280.
Piscina and Monument. c. 1280
with the original roof and bargeboards; the west side is patched, but the east is tolerably perfect; the front with the bargeboards and the door are original, with good ironwork.
The south chapel is Decorated, with a good south window, of three lights, very short, with a large foliated circle in the head. Under this in the east corner is a very remarkable piscina, of a trefoiled form, with a small cross-legged figure in armour lying along the front of it[1] on the edge, with the basin behind it; in the head of the piscina over the figure, are two small angels, their wings expanded and meeting at the point, as if hovering over the figure below; the whole is of good Early Decorated work of the time of Edward I. The east window of this chapel is also Decorated, of two lights, and square-headed outside, with the square-trefoiled arch inside.
The platform of two altars remains against the east wall, the roof is at present higher than that of the aisle, but these roofs are not original.
Moulding of Piscina.
- ↑ "Under the south window of the South Isle, called St. Thomas's Isle, is a monument bearing the portraiture of a person cut cross-legged in stone, about three-quarters of a yard long, and fixed in the wall." Ashmole's Berks, i. 70.
