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huge affair extending from the belfry to the porch. In 1874, the whole church, 

 with the exception of the tower, was pulled down and rebuilt. 



The rebuilding was of a somewhat revolutionary character. The double 

 piscina on the south side of the chancel was carefully preserved and is there 

 still ; but the chancel screen disappeared. 



All we have left is an arch with dog-tooth mouldings, which has been built into 

 the churchyard wall, and is supposed by some to be the old chancel arch. It does 

 not quite tally with the one in the picture, but I cannot vouch for the accuracy 

 of the picture. 



With regard to Parish Registers, there are nine books in all. The earliest 

 entry is in 1673. Most of the volumes are in a bad state, and many pages and 

 parts of pages have been cut out. 



Where the schoolroom now stands there used to be a cottage which was called 

 " Parsonage," but there does not appear to have been any resident incumbent until 

 the Rev. Robert Shittler came in 1842, and built the present Glebe house, and 

 turned the old parsonage into a schoolroom. Robert Shittler was the author of a 

 commentary on the Holy Scriptures. I have had letters from booksellers and 

 book collectors asking whether any copy of the work exists in the parish or in 

 the neighbourhood. But the book is quite unknown here. 



The party then drove on to 



BUCKLAND NEWTON. 



Canon RAVENHILL gave an outline of the history of the parish 

 church. He said that it appeared to have had two dedications. 

 According to Bacon's Liber Regis, it was dedicated to the Holy 

 Rood. There are still some of the steps up to the rood loft, 

 which must have been here before the Reformation, and in 

 Hutchins we read that Sir Nicholas Latimer, in his will dated 

 1504, ordered his body to be buried near the high altar in the 

 Church of St. Mary at Buckland. The University Church of 

 St. Mary at Oxford had two dedications, and the same occurs 

 at Hazelbury Bryan Church. The chancel here, of great length, 

 is the oldest part of Buckland Church, dating from about 1281. 

 The side windows are Early English, with Purbeck marble 

 shafts, capitals, and bases. Two on the north side at the west 

 end of the chancel remain in their original state. The other 

 north window, at the restoration in 1869, was rebuilt partly with 

 fragments of marble from the south side and partly with new 

 work. On the south side of the chancel, much of the Purbeck 



