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north and sontli, the soffits or spaces between the jambs of all these 

 arches being ornamented Avith Tudor mouldings. One of these recesses 

 serves as a small vestry ; the other is unappropriated. It might be used 

 for a choir vestry or a baptistry. The west windoAV is at present half 

 blocked up. This, of course, would be remedied. We now come to the 

 chancel, which was erected about 56 years ago and occupies but a small 

 portion of the space of the orginal chancel that was pulled down during 

 the Commonwealth. The chancel arch is Norman, and has also the nail- 

 head mouldings of the same shallow cliaracter as the pointed nave arches. 

 Complaints are made that from its smallness it obstructs the sound of 

 the voice from a diminished chancel. How much more would it do so 

 from the chancel restored to its original size ? It is this objection 

 that has led to the suggestion of the arches being removed to 

 the new north chancel wall to form the entrance to the organ- 

 chamber, which it is proposed to build on the north side of the chancel. 

 It would be replaced by a pointed arch, resembling that into the tower. 

 This brings me to the second division of my paper, to which the previous 

 sketch of what I could see of the church in an hour or two's inspection on 

 two mornings lately is intended to lead up. It is on the question of how 

 is this interesting church to be restored, nay, of its being restored at all 

 where it stands, for I have been asked to offer an opinion, as I stated at 

 the outset, on the advisability of its removal altogether to the summit 

 of a hill on the south, just in front of the new vicarage. What, you will 

 enquire, could justify such a question being even mooted ? The answer 

 is the lowness of the present site, subjecting it to being flooded when the 

 little river is overfull, and, as I am informed on reliable authority, 

 rendering the floor of the church very damp whenever the water meailows 

 are flooded. The subsoil of the whole area is stated to be gravel, and 

 when the water of the meadows percolates the top soil it finds its level 

 beneath the bed of the stream (for the meadows are on the farther side 

 of the stream from the church and graveyard) into the gravel stratum 

 below and comes up into the graveyard ; to the floating of the coffins 

 occasionally in the newly-dug graves, and filling the vaults which 

 exist underneath the floor of the church with water ; also to the 

 rendering of any system of heating the church from a furnace 

 chamber below exceedingly difficult, though, I think, not impractic- 

 able. This condition of things is, no doubt, serious. The 

 confining of the water of the little river within its bound- 

 might be effected by a concrete or cemented dam and by widens 

 ing the arches of the bridge which spans it at the soutli-east 

 corner of the churchyard : which arches are obviously too small to carry 



