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at the feet of these (the lion and the eagle) symbolize St. Mark and 
St. John. The truss against the east wall was supported by similar 
corbels set diagonally across the angles, whilst on the west, against 
the tower, where the arch precluded this, the corbels are carried by 
an octagonal shaft standing on grotesques. On the east wall, flanking 
the window, are two niches of very elaborate design and delicate 
construction, the slender proportion of their tabernacle work (the 
smaller shafts of which are only jin square) being suggestive of 
wood rather than stone. Both bear evidence of rich gilding and 
colouring beneath the whitewash, and the spirit shown in their 
handicraft by the respective workmen is very instructive ; for whilst 
Bishop Edington’s artist gilded every part, even where hidden from 
view behind the canopies; the churchwardens’ whitewasher only 
smeared over the parts which can be seen from below—or perhaps 
the latter was more sparing of his whitewash than the former of his 
gold! The niche on the north is richer in some minor points of 
detail than that on the south; and as the Church is dedicated to the 
Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Katherine (with All Saints) I would 
suggest the probability that figures of the two principal saints 
occupied these niches, and that of Our Lady the richer one on the 
north, 
Before I leave the chancel I must allude to a singular combination 
of features, which, so far as I know, has not hitherto attracted 
notice. In the centre of the south side is a doorway (which, 
doubtless, from its plain external appearance, has been considered 
** modern,” and is described as such by Canon Jackson, who informs 
me that this was the opinion of the Rev. E. Wilton, who had lived 
nearly all his life in or near Edington, and was much interested in 
the Church). This doorway is richly moulded on the inside, and 
the label is carried up as an ogee canopy, with flanking pinnacles 
and crockets, and dies into the string course as shewn in my longi- 
tudinal section. But the rebate for the door is on the owtside, where 
the western jamb and arch have a small plain chamfer, whilst the 
eastern jamb is deeply splayed off. This was evidently not originally 
an outside entrance to the chancel as at present, but opened into a 
long narrow chamber against the two eastern bays. Referring to 
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