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Norman pillars in the nave, but the rest of the work is chiefly transitional from Decorated to Perpendicular. The chancel screen and door to the rood-loft still remain. The church contains a mural brass to Anthony Dalton, 1672, and the arms of Charles I, 1641 - a somewhat unusual circumstance, owing to the general removal of the royal arms during the Commonwealth. Two windows have been given by individual parishioners, but the chancel is still unrestored For want of funds. The building, which is a good specimen of a fourteenth or fifteenth century village church, has been thoroughly restored as far as means would allow: galleries and pews all removed; the nave and aisles repaved, and, with the exception of the choir stalls, entirely free from seats. Chairs are used at the services. The bells are very fine toned. The new church, which stands on the site of an old chapel, dated 1608, was built in 1840 by the late Mr. Eginton, of Worcester, in the Early English style; but the design was deficient in beauty and those details which are necessary for the proper celebration of Divine worship. Much, however, has been lately done to remedy this. The chancel has been refitted, the altar raised, and seats provided for the choir. There is daily service in this church. By a statute of Henry VII all persons who held land in this manor were compelled to pay one penny annually towards repairing the church, or forfeit twenty pence. I don't know of any similar instance to this.

Rev. C. S. Caffin is the vicar; value of living, ,£390 ; the patronage is in the hands of trustees, Sir J. Kennaway, Bart., Rev. C. Kennaway, and the Archdeacon of Winchester. Church accommodation, 840; free sittings, 450.

The Roman Catholics have a monastery here, founded by the Passionists (from Woodchester) in 1850. A small chapel and priest's house and school for boarders had been here for twenty years before that. These were purchased by the Passionists and added to, so as to provide accommodation for five priests and a certain number of young men who