Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1907) (14779607071)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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give light to a rood-loft in the northaisle, the curious reredos of which still remains) ; the north porch waseither newly built, or rebuilt in the fifteenth century, with an EarlyEnglish round-headed doorway, probably dating about 1220; at thewest end of the north aisle was a good Perpendicular window. Speaking of the Keynes family, which gave their name to this andother places in the immediate locality, such as Poole Keynes and Somer-ford Keynes, the President said they were extensive landowners in thispart of Wiltshire at the time of Henry I., but the one who actually heldAshton Keynes and Poole Keynes was Sir John Keynes, of the time ofEdward III., who married a daughter of Maltravers, who was concernedin the alleged murder of Edward II. In 1386 (temp. Richard II.) he alsoheld large landed possessions in Northamptonshire, and at that time anepidemic must have seized the family, for Sir John Keynes and his wifedied, the property descended to a little girl twelve years of age, whose
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Cirencester Meeting. 39 death was recorded in a few months, she was succeeded by an aunt,Elizabeth, and she dying, the property passed to a cousin, de Wootton. On entering the church, the Vicar read extracts from the excellentdescription written for the Wiltshire Archaeological Society by Mr. C. E.Ponting, F.S.A., a striking feature being the splendid three-memberedNorman chancel arch, which was, however, unfortunately widened atthe restoration in 1869 under Mr. Butterfield. The church of the Holy Cross consists of nave with aisles and northand south porches, western tower, and chancel with north chapel. Theearliest work in this church is to be seen in the chancel arch and theeastern pillars of the nave on the north side, but the former has beenenlarged. In this work and in the corresponding pillars on the southside can be traced the course of the transition in architectural stylewhich was completed about 1200. The font is also a fine specimen ofthe work of this period. The north and