36 ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



macle too large. The soutli Windows of the chancel were 

 also freaks. It was not a good design, to put a little bit of 

 Perpendicular tracery upon the top of a Decorated quatre- 

 foil as had been done, but it was perhaps a sign that the 

 first rudiments of the Perpendicular style were Coming in. 

 In the hall they had just seen there was an example of 

 good architecture, and in that chancel of bad architecture 

 of about the same date. The nave w^as decidedly of a local 

 character, but poor, and there was a great weakness about 

 the whole. The angel corbels were very beautiful in some 

 churches, but the architect had contrived in this to make 

 theni very ugly. The west window was much superior, 

 and those of the belfry were curious. They were Deco- 

 rated, and had a triangle in the head instead of a circle. 

 The roof of the chancel was a very nice one, but still rather 

 a freak, and more llke that of a hall than of a church. 

 Mr. Dickinson pointed attention to several marks on the 

 chancel arch, as if bars had rested there, and enquired if 

 they probably had any connection with the rood-loft? 

 Mr. Parker explained that it was a common practice at the 

 time of the Reformation, to fiU up the chancel-ai'ch with 

 latli and plaster ; and the mai'ks appeared to indicate that 

 this had been done in the present case. The arch itself 

 was very late, and he could not suppose that a rood-loft 

 had been attached to it after it was built. He once met 

 with one of these timber partition-screens, separating the 

 nave from the chancel, with the two tables (or oak slabs) 

 of the Commandments in ornamental letters carved in the 

 wood, of the time of Queen Elizabeth. The fact of their 

 having been so used clearly shewed that the Reformers, 

 when they mentioned the east end of the church, meant the 

 east end of the nave, and not of the chancel. The custom 

 in their time was to place the communion-table in that 



