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North wall. In the North column of the Chancel arch, open 
spaces left in the modern stonework reveal the remains of an 
elegant clustered column of an earlier church. A carved wooden 
pulpit, seemingly of Jacobean age, stands at the foot of the South 
column, and above, at considerable height, is the opening of a 
winding stair to the former rood-loft. The ancient oak stalls 
with miserere seats are now fixed to the South of the Sacrarium 
as “ sedilia.” A new Reredos and Altar are in the Chancel, with 
a handsome floor of encaustic tiles, the former Reredos and 
Communion table are in the North aisle, which presumably serves 
for week-day celebrations and services. Externally this Church ' 
shows a very patchy structure, an ugly brick parapet stands on a 
very weather-worn substructure of old red sandstone, but an 
elegant porch on the South side has a prettily cusped arch. 
Proceeding directly North of this Church, the Coningsby 
Hospital was soon reached, and a red-coated veteran conducted 
the members over this building, founded 1614 by a philanthrop- 
ical member of this name for eleven worn-out soldiers and 
superannuated faithful servants, each of whom now receives 5s. a 
week and a domicile, a quaint scarlet suit of clothes with a breast 
ornament containing the coat of arms of the founder, three 
rabbits or coneys, and an annual dinner in a common room kept 
in a very dirty condition and unlike that of St. Cross, Winchester, 
a similar but better endowed hospital. The Chapel in which the 
*‘ Chaplain ” conducts services has the various heraldic quarterings 
of the Coningsby family on the walls, but is otherwise very plain. 
Behind the Hospital are the ruins of the Monastery of the Black 
Friars, with a restored pulpit or Preaching Cross of six cinq-foil 
arches open on all sides and standing on a flight of steps. The 
centre shaft passes through the groining and terminates at its 
apex in a stone cross. 
Of the Monastery itself, founded 1276, very little remains, but 
the base of a font said to have belonged to an earlier Circular 
Church of Knights Hospitallers, whose Monastery was removed 
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