ELLINGHAM CHURCH. 15 



Attached to the exteiior of the nave is a hiiikling Avhicli containi= 

 the staircase to the rood-loft, ^vith tlie usual door communicating 

 with the interior of the church. 



In the restoration works, the rood-loft, ■which is, I believe, 

 practically as intact as in pre-Reforniation times, was not interfered 

 with, though the plaistcr work as now seen was probahly erected to 

 carry the Lord's Prayer and Commandments, according to law, at the 

 date you see, 1671. You will remark upon the ancient screen, the 

 stand for the hour glass, Avhich has itself, I regret to say, dis- 

 appeared. The chancel, which was of Early English work, was 

 mostly, so far as the outer walls are concerned, rebuilt ; but one of 

 the windows on the South side is original, that is of Perpen- 

 dicular work. The East window, coeval with the oldest part of the 

 church, was from 1746 to 1883 blocked up by the erection which 

 you will see placed against the West wall of the church. 



In the corner of the chancel, within the altar rails, is a brass 

 to one of the Punchardon family, who held this manor in the period 

 between 13L0 and 1392, or later. 



In the vestry are some ancient bosses from the roof and rafter 

 supports of the old church. 



I would now draw your attention to the facing of the rood-loft 

 and its old lettering of the Lord's Prayer and Commandments with 

 the accompanying texts. After hearing, as you have done to-day, the 

 sad story of Alice Lisle, it has often struck me that there is a 

 singular coincidence between the choice of the texts wherewith to 

 adorn this screen, which were probably painted by her order, and 

 bearing the date 1671 and her own fate sixteen years later. 



You will see one of these texts read " My son, fear God and the 

 King, and meddle not with them that are seditious ;" in our 

 authorised version " Avith them that are given to change." Either 

 reading is significant. The former is taken from the Geneva 

 lUble. 



The pulpit, of probably the tinie of James I., is the one which 

 was always in the ehuich. 

 'The four-post pe\V formerly app'citainin'g to Moyl6's Court was 



