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and this, allowing for the fact of each stage being 7in. wider than 
the one above it, and noting the height of the whole structure to be 
47ft., indicates a divergence of the central line from the perpen- 
dicular of as much as three degrees. 
There is one curious piece of furniture in the Church, a piscina 
in the south wall of the sacrarium which is unprovided with any 
drain. The explanation of this very singular construction I take to 
be, that it was the work of some churchwarden of the last century 
who had seen piscinas in Churches, and thought one would look 
well here, but had not the least idea what purpose they were in- 
tended to serve ! 
The bells are four in number, three in sequence and sounding a 
minor third, and the fourth probably an old sanctus bell. Two of 
them are dated respectively 1641 and 1679. The third, which is 
undated, but evidently much older, bears the inscription “ Sancta 
Maria, ora pro nobis,” an inscription which I am informed that my 
venerable predecessor used to be careful to tell visitors was not 
placed upon it by him! This rather reminds me of a story which 
I have heard, of a schoolmaster asking his class “ Who signed 
Magna Charta ? ” and being answered by several eager voices, “ O, 
please, Sir, I did’nt !” 
I am unwilling to leave the precincts of the Church without very 
briefly referring to one matter which I have brought forward more 
than once at meetings of the members of my own profession, but 
which comes, I think, no less within the purview of antiquarians 
than it does within that of clergymen. And this is the extreme 
_ importance, in the case of all churchyards, of making and keeping 
_ copies of those memorials of former generations which are furnished 
by sepulchral inscriptions. Nobody who has not had his attention 
| called to the subject would believe the extraordinary unsuitability 
of the stone often used for the purpose of these inscriptions, and 
_ the great rapidity with which many of them consequently disappear. 
_ And I need scarcely inform the members of an archeological society 
_ that we can never guage the value which may attach at some future 
_ time to any record of the past, however little may that value appear 
at the time when the record was made. Some half-dozen years ago 
