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Updated: June 20, 2025
A careful restoration some years ago brought to light several interesting details that had been hidden for some two hundred years or more; including a stairs to the rood-loft, a squint, and the piscina.
The Sisters had to carry her in their arms, and on reaching the piscina the lady-hospitallers wouldn't bathe her. She was dead, they said. No matter! she was undressed at last, and plunged into the water, quite unconscious and covered with perspiration. And when they took her out she was so pale that they laid her on the ground, thinking that it was certainly all over with her at last.
It has triple belfry windows, and a spired stair turret, but the shallowness of the buttresses detracts from its impressiveness. In the sanctuary note the fine piscina and the brasses to the De Cheddars one to Sir Thomas on a recessed altar-tomb on the N., and a smaller one to his wife on the floor below.
A slight pause ensued; then Charles added, "But perhaps these men actually do wish to introduce the realities as well as the externals: perhaps they wish to use the piscina as well as to have it ... Sheffield," he continued abruptly, "why are not canonicals a sham, if piscinæ are shams?"
Well, she got to Lourdes, and dipped her hand into the piscina. But as soon as she did so she began to shriek, and took it out again. Then they caught hold of her and put her hand into the water by force, and kept it there while she continued sobbing, with her face covered with sweat.
One is a three-storeyed structure, containing on basement a vaulted, chapel-like chamber, lighted by side lancets and a terminal triplet, and possessing a large piscina and an aumbry. This is generally but quite erroneously described as the "chapter-house." It may have been the fratry. On the first floor is another vaulted chamber, supposed to have been the library.
How, by his goodness, the Lord of Heaven, has made near us a piscina, such as there never was, except beyond the sea, there by Josaphat, and for this one near here do I exhort you." He belonged to the family of the counts of Barcelona which became in his time one of the most powerful royal houses in the West of Europe.
The church is an unattractive-looking little building, but of more interest than its appearance suggests. The vault is groined. In the S. porch is a mutilated stoup. Within, note in chancel, image brackets and defaced piscina; rood loft stair and window. The nave roof is original. Bratton Seymour, a village conspicuously perched on a hill 3 m. W. from Wincanton. The church has been rebuilt.
Charles asked the use of the piscina he did not know its name and was told that there was always a piscina in the old churches in England, and that there could be no proper restoration without it.
The fine sedilia and piscina in the fourteenth-century chancel should be noticed, and also the well-proportioned porch that has within it a coffin slab bearing an incised cross. Here the valley of the Winterbourne comes down from the heart of the Plain at Orcheston through Winterbourne Stoke and Berwick St.
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