1B4 THE ANTIQUITIES [LETT. 



hundred and ninety-nine years. Why I should suppose that 

 Knights Templars were occasionally buried at this church will 

 appear in some future letter, when we come to treat more 

 particularly concerning the property they possessed here, and 

 the intercourse that subsisted between them and the priors of 

 Selborne. 



We must now proceed to the chancel, properly so called, 

 which seems to be coeval with the church, and is in the same 

 plain unadorned style, though neatly kept. This room measures 

 thirty-one feet in length, and sixteen feet and a half in breadth, 

 and is wainscoted all round, as high as to the bottom of the 

 windows. The space for the communion table is raised two 

 steps above the rest of the floor, and railed in with oaken 

 balusters. Here I shall say somewhat of the windows of the 

 chancel in particular, and of the whole fabric in general. They 

 are mostly of that simple and unadorned sort called Lancet, 

 some single, some double, and some in triplets. At the east 

 end of the chancel are two of a moderate size, near each other ; 

 and in the north wall two very distant small ones, unequal in 

 length and height : and in the south wail are two, one on each 

 side of the chancel door, that are broad and squat, and of a 

 different order. At the east end of the south aisle of the church 

 there is a large lancet- window in a triplet ; and two very small, 

 narrow single ones in the south wall, and a broad squat window 

 beside, and a double lancet one in the west end ; so that the 

 appearance is very irregular. In the north aisle are two 

 windows, made shorter when the roof was sloped ; and in the 

 north transept a large triple window, shortened at the time of 

 a repair in 1721 ; when over it was opened a round one of 

 considerable size, which affords an agreeable light, and renders 

 that chantry the most cheerful part of the edifice. 



The church and chancels have all coved roofs, ceiled about 

 the year 1683; before which they were open to the tiles and 

 shingles, showing the naked rafters, and threatening the con- 

 gregation with the fall of a spar, or a blow from a piece of 

 loose mortar. 



On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval white 

 marble monument, with the following inscription; and at the 



