chancel of Stanton St. John's, the east window of which, with the straight lines of its tracery, is well known. Of the same period, or somewhat earlier, we have a good window from Waterpery [1].
Of the Decorated style of Edward II. and III., Milton is a fine example nearly throughout: the chancel of Beckley is also very good, and retains its original roof of plain canted open timbers, with a well-moulded wall-plate and some valuable glass of the same period. Garsington is also in great part of this style, but rude and clumsy work; the clearstory windows, however, are good specimens of a rather uncommon class, and those at Stanton St. John's and Milton are still better.
Of the transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style, the chapel of St. Bartholomew's hospital is a small, but curious specimen.
The examples of the Perpendicular style are, the towers of Horsepath and Cowley, the chancel of Marston, a good wooden porch at Garsington, and small portions of most of the other churches, and a bit of rather curious domestic work of a late period in the mynchery at Littlemore. The parsonage house at Garsington has also considerable remains of this style.
Font and Desk, Beckley.
The font at Warborough is of lead, of the thirteenth century, with a pedestal of the fifteenth, both in imitation of the parent church at Dorchester. The same kind of font occurs also at Long Wittenham, another dependancy of the same abbey, and has been engraved in this Journal, vol. ii. p. 135. At Beckley the font is remarkable, not in itself, for it could not well be plainer, but for the stone desk for a book attached to it. In the same church there is a holy water stoup in the porch, by the side of a good Perpendicular doorway. In the plain little church of Noke the iron hour-glass stand of the Puritan period remains. There are still several of them in the neighbourhood of Oxford, and there were more within these
- ↑ Haseley and Dorcliester are also of this period, but requiring more full illustration than the limits of the Guide would admit, have been published separately by the Society.
