86 Collections for a History of Seagry. 
(Thomas Hawkins), 1756; E. F. (Elias Ferris), 1775. A good 
specimen of a carved oak screen spanned the chancel arch and hid 
the altar. 
The cost of re-building was £860, £100 being raised by a rate, 
£200 given by the patron (the Earl of Carnarvon) for the chancel, 
and £100 by Lord Holland for the south transept; the remainder 
was raised by subscription. The first stone was laid on the 7th 
June, and the Church opened.on the 8th November in the same 
year. It is entered by a Gothic porch, with stained and lancet 
windows, given by the architect, John Henry Hakewill, 8, Craig’s 
Court, London. The nave and chancel are tiled after the pattern 
of the old tiles; the seats are oak, carved with a scroll pattern. 
The chancel arches are adorned with suitable texts in red and black 
letters. In 1880 the Church was lit throughout with handsome 
ruby and brass triplex lamps, with chains to match ; the altar vested 
with a set of altar cloths, and a surpliced choir of twelve placed in 
the chancel seats, until then occupied by the vicar’s family and the 
squire’s. The following are a list of monuments now in the Church. 
At the restoration the position of some of them was necessarily 
altered, but they are now given as placed :— 
List or Monuments anp Inscrrprions In S. Mary’s, Szaary. 
In South Transept. 
The effigy of Walter Drew Clifford, the founder; part of the 
arms visible. 
Here lyeth the body of Ann Wetts, the daughter of John and Rebeckas 
Stratton, who departed this life January the 7th, Anno Domini 1704, Atatis 
suze 61, 
Resecca Wart, daughter of John Stratton . . - . of . .. . 1708. 
Near this place lies the body of Roperr Stratron,}Gent., obiit Oct. 9th, 1758, 
AMtat 75. 
Near this place lyeth the body of Roprrr Srratron, Senr., Gent., who died 
Oct. 11,1700. Resurgam. 
Anne, daughter of T. and R. Stratton, was here interred July 5th, Anno 
Dom., 1707, aged 4 months. 
Here lyeth the body of Reperaug, ye wife of Henry Stratton, who departed 
this life the 12th day of June, 1678, aged 84. 
