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transept, that to the latter being cut in the earlier wall. As this 
doorway was built up in the fifteenth century (as proved by the oyster 
shell test) the stoup here could only have been in use for a short period. 
In the next stage of the tower over the groining doorways 
exist on the cardinal sides, three of which originally opened 
into the chancel and transepts (respectively) above the collars of 
the trussed rafter roofs, of which the roof of the north transept is 
a re-production. Another doorway, to serve a similar use in the 
higher roof of the nave, occurs in the next stage of the tower, and 
at present opens on the outside of the modern roof; so that the 
lower doorway on the west has no apparent meaning but to preserve 
uniformity, unless the room in this stage of the tower were used as 
a watching chamber. All these doorways had been closed, but 
those on the east and north faces have now been re-opened and 
fitted with doors. 
The font is a plain one of fourteenth century date. 
The alms-box is mace of a solid block of oak, and has staples for 
the three locks enjoined by the canon of 1603. 
I must not, even at the risk of unduly extending the limits of 
this paper, omit to mention what is known of the “ ups and downs” 
of the weathercock. The earliest tidings of it that I can gather 
introduce it, some twenty years ago, as a fragment lying on the 
inside sill of the belfry window, where it had probably been in 
disuse for a long time, The late incumbent, the Rev. W. Ewart 
(vicar of the parish, 1862 to 1873), rescued it from this comparative 
oblivion, and had it mounted in a glass case with carved oak frame, 
and set up in the hall of the vicarage. Beneath it was painted the 
following inseription :— 
FRAGMENTVM * QVOD * VILE * PVTAS * ET * INTVILE * FERRVM' 
TRITON * SACRA * SVPER ' M@NIA * NOTVS * EGO ° 
INDICIVM * POPVLO * PLVVIAS * VENTOSQVE * SEQVACES * 
LONGA * PER * ANNORVM * SHOVLA * PERTVLERAM . 
ILLVM * NOSTRAM * APICEM * QVONDAM * CRVX * DIGNA * CORONET* 
HIC * MERITA * REQVIE * FESSVS * AT * IPSE * FRVAR ° 
QVILIBET * ES * LECTOR ‘ TIBI . SINT * TRANQVILLA * SENECTYS . 
ET * GRATES * HOMINVM * POSTQVE * PERICLA * SALYS ° 
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