192 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Farlelgh. 



window, aud the historical old cock on the tower, preserve the 

 memory of this dedication. 



The following was the approximate expenditure on the rebuilding, 

 viz. : — 



£ s. d. 

 Outer walls and roof 300 



Chancel, desk, and lectern 212 8 



Seventy-five free seats at the west end 105 



Cost of the faculty 9 9 



Total £626 17 



Of this sum the Rev. E. Brown, the Rector, gave £317 8*. Zd., 

 and Rector Cozens £20. 



In 1874 a series of high family pews still stood in unsightly 

 contrast with the seventy-five free seats ; the seats in the chancel 

 were ill-placed and rickety, and the pavement throughout the Church 

 was old and imperfect. 



So a second faculty was obtained. The nave is now furnished 

 throughout with open seats of oak of an uniform pattern, and the 

 pavement is of encaustic tiles. The chancel was raised two feet and 

 the altar one foot higher still. The altar railing of oak, which existed 

 in 1843, was given away to do duty (as it still does) as staircase 

 railings in the house of Mr. James Cottle, of Farley-Wick, and was 

 replaced by an open stone railing. This in its turn was removed in 

 1874 to the top of the chancel steps. 



Stalls of oak have been put up for the choir, and the reading desk 

 is in the chancel. The pulpit has every appearance of the age assigned 

 to it, and we may honestly believe in the tradition that Bishop 

 Jewel preached from it. The inscription is as follows : — '' Blessed 

 are Thay y"^ heare y^ word of God and Keepe it.' — Luke, xi., 28." 



The gallery was doomed to removal by the faculty, but was re- 

 prieved for want of means. It is, on the whole a disfigurement and 

 a nuisance. It takes away all light and air from a number of the 

 free seats ; it harbours disturbance ; it destroys the fair proportions 

 of the nave ; and it cuts oflP the tower as an efiective part of the 



