• 10 PARISH CHURCH OF WEAVERHAM

us the former extent of the Hefierston chapel. When the enlargement of the church was carried out the west wall of the chapel was taken down, and looking across the aisle one can easily see the form of die corner buttress of the chapel. The first arch of the chapel was not touched, and it required all the skill of the masons to make the springer of the Tudor arch of the nave intersect with the early fourteenth century arch of the chapel. It was not until the year 1636 that the chapel was extended eastwards and the furthest arch was cut through and the north-east comer added ; the east wall of the church was earned through from nordi to south, making the shape of the church four square. I think that was the date when the priest's vestry beyond the cast chancel was taken down and the doorway built up, and when the aumbry (wherein I found the Horn Book) was made on the right side of the altar. 1636 was the date when the two Parclose screens were erected, for in the church accounts is the item :—

1636. Paid Henerie Maddock at the charge of the new Quire in the Chancel 00/17/07

The HefTerston chapel which had been maintained by the owners of Hefferston Grange from the eleventh

century, changed hands in 1918. The last owner died, and his successors refused to acknowledge any liability, consequently the claim to proprietary use of it lapsed. As stated 011 the brass memorial plate near die vestry door, it was then rehabilitated, the work being completed by voluntary effort, and the character of the place entirely changed. 1 was fortunate in discovering the piece of carving, now used as a riser for the altar steps, in an out-house of a cottage near by. It had formerly been the enrichment of a wallplate, and is a good example of early quatrefoil carving. The holy table, a quaint specimen of Elizabethan workmanship, was formerly in use in a Hampshire church. ,

The roof above this north aisle ceiling is finely con