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Rh the chapel adjoining. The first of these has been much rebuilt and modernised, but still contains some medieval work; of which the most striking specimen is a window of a single light with an ogee trefoiled arch under a square head, having a horizontal label, the corbels of which are heads of animals with open mouths, forming waterspouts. I should say its character is late Decorated, or early Perpendicular. The chapel, situated but a few yards to the north of this, is Norman, with later insertions. It consists of a nave and chancel, and has over the chancel arch a bell-turret of two pointed arches under a gable of good pitch. As such gables are very frequently devoid of any mouldings characteristic of style, the plainness of the present one does not prove it to belong to an early date, though I am much inclined to believe it does so, more especially as one of a similar description on a small church near Pershore has very decidedly early characteristics. The chancel arch at Stanley-Pontlarge is semicircular, of two orders, the inferior, plain without a chamfer; the superior, with chevrons on the western face, a label, and a shaft at the edge of its impost. The eastern face of the arch is comparatively plain. There is no east window. On the south side of the chancel is a piscina of later date, projecting from the wall, and of the sedilia, a standard or elbow remains, probably one of a pair between which the bench was placed. This is of stone-work. The north and south door of the nave are Norman, the former has a transom with an ornamented border. The arch has two orders, with shafted imposts, and a label. Both the orders have the chevron in the soffit, and the label has billets at a distance from each other. This chapel, though small, is a most picturesque and interesting edifice. The Norman work is good and very pure; I should say of an early date.

At a short distance to the north-west of the chapel is a farm-house in the Tudor style. The south end, which is a gable, has a good chimney, tapering in stages from the ground, and square at the top, where it is finished with a cornice of shallow projection, crowned with a row of small battlements or knobs. The windows have square-headed labels, the lights being arched, scarcely, if at all, pointed, and without foliation. This house, in its present state, is of a simple oblong plan, with a gable at each end.

Near Bishops Cleeve, on the Evesham road, is a farm-