234 Boyton Church. 
Tower facing due North, and of considerable height, has remained 
from the reign of Henry III. to the present time as perfect as on 
the first day of its dedication. 
The entrance under the Tower is through a remarkably fine 
Early English doorway. It has a sharp pointed Segmental Arch, 
without any drip-stone. The archway itself is composed of three 
orders. 
The first consists of a plain chamfered continuous Impost. 
The architrave is of the second order, and has a hollow between 
two rounds, with dog-tooth moulding in the hollow; the Impost 
is banded with a plain chamfer below. 
The Arch of the third order has the architrave square. 
The inner walls of the Tower are of extremely perfect: flint 
masonry, without a sympton of crack or decay, and demonstrate 
the admirable settings, which to this day retain such small masses 
as the flints without any crumblings of the wall. 
A very ancient ladder of the rudest materials leads to the Belfry, 
which is situated in the upper part of the Tower, and is of con- 
siderably later date than the lower stages of the Tower. 
On the right hand an ancient Vestry or Priest’s chamber is 
situated against the West wall, and contains a small aumbrye, 
probably for relics, and a fire-place of Early English stamp; two 
small lancet windows seem also to mark this singular chamber as 
of Early English construction. 
Passing into the Nave our attention is arrested by the richness 
of the work of past generations, and the neglect or want of taste 
of more recent times.—Thus we observe the massive effigy of a 
Crusader, and the once richly adorned chantry erected by his 
descendants, for the benefit of the souls of the departed; whilst the 
eye is painfully impressed with a flat plaster ceiling, unseemly for 
a meeting house—much more for the Parish Church of the lordly 
Giffards: a hideous gallery shuts out the West window, or rather 
the remains of what once was a handsome perpendicular window, 
but now gapes without mullion or tracery in naked ugliness. The 
Nave once was of ample proportion both in height and width. The 
West end. contained (as we have observed) a handsome perpen- 
