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The carving in the south wall of the Mother and Child, blessed by the hand of God, is certainly of this date. It’s iconography is very unusual and it is clearly part of a frieze. Until 1910 it was on the out­side of the south wall, used as a sundial, but its original position is unknown.
 
mother and child box pews
 
As they now stand, the nave and its two arcades appear to date from very early in the 13th century (King John gave the church to the monks of Beaulieu in 1205). The south arcade, with its round arches, is the earlier, the north arcade, which has pointed arches, being a fully fledged Gothic translation of it, dating from ten or twenty years later.
 
The chancel appears to have been reconstructed in the early 13th century too. On the north side three seats were placed — the semi—circular arches above them can still be seen. The slightly later lancet windows above were mutilated when the early 14th—century roof was constructed. In the space over the 15th-century boarded ceilure, parts of the apparatus for raising the pyx have been found. The east and south windows are also part of this phase. So is the bellcote which originally stood over the chancel arch, as at Kelmscott church.
 
At the east end of the chancel the remains of a rare painted I3th-century reredos have been reinstated. This was done during the restoration in 1934 by Percival Hartland Thomas and Professor E.W. Tristram.
 
wall pictures  
St. John's tower
The bells are by Abraham Rudhall 1, of Gloucester, 1717, which is probably the date when the bellcote was rebuilt in its present position incorporating a sundial.
 
Late in the 14th century larger windows were provided at the east end of each aisle (that in the south aisle is now in the south wall of the aisle extension). Bigger windows were also added in the 15th century when the roofs of the aisles were raised and enclosed by parapets. In the 16th century the south side was extended, probably to form a pew for the squire.
 
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