church. Under the eastern arch, also at right angles, facing west, as it 

 were, round the monument of Sir Peter Pole and his wife, Elizabeth, sat 

 the choir. The monument itself was covered with trellis work, which also 

 formed a desk for books. In the chancel there were five pews on the 

 north side, and five pews on the south side. 



The altar rails were made of deal, having panels of cast-iron tracery, 

 and weie painted and grained dark oak. Many people believed them to 

 be really old carved oak. All the woodwork was painted and grained in 

 a similar manner, the inside of the pews being simply painted dark 

 brown. The back to the choir seat under the arch had cast-iron tracery, 

 like that in the altar rails, and had an ornament along the top of the 

 same material — a kind of cornice. 



The east window was a three-light window of much the same design as 

 the one on the south in the nave, glazed with plain diamond panes, and 

 having a border of purple. This was put up in the year 1844, the previous 

 window having been, as regards stone work, of the same pattern. All the 

 walli were thickly plastered. All the roof was painted and grained dark 

 oak. The church was heated by stoves, not too successfully. 



The church had been re-pewed and generally renovated about the time 

 that I was born, that was in 1833. I have but small knowledge of what 

 it was like up to that time. It must have been plastered at that time, as 

 Isabella Lowe, an aged woman, could tell me of a figure of death, which, 

 when the plaster was removed, came to light, as did several texts surrounded 

 by a kind of rude canopy work, and, over what was the north door, the 

 names of two Churchwardens (whose names I could not read), and the date 

 1671 or 1672. From this date, I conjecture that very likely the church was 

 whitewashed at the time of the Plague, 1665, and, looking bare and cold, 

 was decorated by the Churchwardens to the best of their knowledge and 

 means. It must have been in the lifetime of German Pole. At the time 

 of this restoration, about 1833, the hall pew was just outside the chancel, 

 on the south side, the pulpit and reading desk being opposite. At the west 

 end was some sort of gallery. There were some old oak open seats, of 

 which three are now in existence. I believe the others were so decayed as 

 to be useless. I believe that the nave was re-roofed at that time. It was 

 then that some of the parishioners objected to sitting at the west end, 

 being over a vault ; so Mr. Chandos-Pole, my father, said — " Then I will 

 sit there." This shews that the hall pew, in that place, does not date from 

 time immemorial. 



From the time I can remember up to 1857, or thereabouts, there was 

 no kind of musical instrument in the church. There had been a small 

 organ worked by hand, but when it was first placed there, or how long 

 it remained, I do not know. At one time there was some kind of band, 



