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Rh NEIGHBOURHOOD OF CHELTENHAM. lo; Window, Korth side of Chancel, Withington. In the chancel is a trefoil-headed lancet window, the interior spiny of which forms a pointed arcli, which is enriched by chevrons on the surface of the archivolt. The other lancet windows in the; chancel are also trefoil-headed. The south transc})t is Decorated. Swindon church, about a mile from Cheltenham, has been partly rebuilt, but still retains its curious Norman western tower, of an hexagonal form. The only other instance of this kind of tower with which I am acquainted is at Ozleworth, also in this county ; of which I therefore send a sketch, though it is not strictly within the limits which I pro- posed to keep in my excursions. Ozleworth church has an hex- agonal tower between the nave and the chancel. It must be of a late Norman, as the western arch supporting it is pointed, and of a decidedly Early English character. This is much en- riched by a kind of ornament which might have been sug- gested by the variety of ways in which the chevron is laid upon the architrave in late Norman, and of which we have noticed examples. It consists of a bold open-work of cylin- ders forming angles with each other, (as in the Norman chev- ron,) but of different inclinations, and in different planes : several examples are to be found in transitional buildings. Ozleworth is about eleven or twelve miles from Stroud, in a south-western direction. Having read in Atkyns' Gloucestershire that Seven- hampton church was built by Mr. John Camber, who lies buried in the chancel, having died in 1447, I ex- pected to find that most valuable thing, a church of one style, bearing a certain . date. A glance however shewed me that it has not this claim upon our atten- tion, as it ranges from Early English of a veiy rude clia- Sevenbampton Cburcb.