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walls about three feet thick. There are few mouldings, and but little ornament- 
ation, except on the middle chancel arch, and abacus of the nave-archway, and 
on the font. Externally a little enrichment will be found introduced into the 
string, and heads of the apse windows, and on the head of the South doorway of 
the nave. The proportions of the plan of the building are very pleasing. The 
dimensions of the nave are about 53 ft. long by 26ft. 6in. wide; the first chancel 
(or central tower) a square of about 21ft., the second chancel being 19ft. by 16ft. 
and the apse 17ft. 6in. wide, struck in with a radius of about 9ft. 
The points of interest are six windows introduced into the walls of later 
architecture, viz., two of the First Pointed (13th century), one Decorated (14th 
century), and three Perpendicular (15th century). The Priest’s doorway in the 
chancel is also First Pointed, and the two nave doorways (N. and 8.) are of the 
same date as the tower and spire (viz., Decorated). 
Placed in front of the apse will be seen the high altar, which is of stone. 
The top slab is 6ft. 3in. long, by 3ft. wide, and 4in. thick, bevelled on the under 
side, and it is 82 inches high. On the Gospel and Epistle ends, and in the centre 
of this slab, there are five incised visible crosses, having reference, I presume, to 
the five wounds in our Lord’s Body. The support is of rough rubble stonework. 
The top stone slab had to be removed during the restoration in 1869-1870, but no 
relics were discovered. Probably, then, the altar was erected where a saint’s 
blood was shed, and the Church afterwards added to enclose and protect it. 
Within about two miles of the Church is the ruin of a long-disused chapel, 
adjoining Urishay Castle, and in this chapel is another stone altar precisely 
similar to the one I have described, and bearing also the five crosses. At Abbey 
Dore you will also find a stone slab for altar, but minus the crosses. The narrow 
loop-hole windows, with stone steppings, are very curious in the apse and the 
nave. A wooden table of oak—hbefore the restoration—stood, and was used as the 
Communion table, before the stone altar. This is now removed and placed in the 
vestry or lower part of the tower. 
I remember when I was curate in charge, and before the restoration, the inner 
chancel or the sacrarium was blocked out from view of the congregation. The key- 
stone of the chancel arch had dropped out, and a wall of lath, plaster, and rubble, 
three or four feet thick was built up which filled up the whole of the archway, a 
small organ doorway being left in the middle, and this part of the church was only 
used at the time of the celebration of the Holy Communion. A stranger once 
helped me and insisted upon reading the ante-communion service from the stone 
altar, the old clerk—a son of the Anakims—tried his utmost from his place in the 
three-decker, to repeat the responses after the commandments, but the stranger’s 
voice in the inner chancel was only a hum, in fact inaudible, and my old friend 
took off his spectacles, looked piteously round on the congregation, closed his big 
book with a bang, and said, ‘“‘It is of no use. I canna’ hear him.” ' 
A decorated Piscina will be found in the south wall of the nave to the east. There 
is a noticeable inscription on a stone tablet in the chancel, with an inscription in 
English and Latin, as follows :—‘‘ Here lieth the body of Warden Shaw, minister, 
who deceased the 14th June, Anno Domini 1658,” sic : 
