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here, but it is, beside this legitimate attraction, also 

 very much of a museum of sepulchral curiosities. A 

 brass for two brothers, with a curious metrical inscrip- 

 tion, lurks in the gloom of the south aisle on the wall, 

 and sundry grim and ghastly relics, in the shape of 

 engraved coffin-plates, grubbed up by ghoulish 

 antiquaries from the vaults below, form a perpetual 

 memento mori from darksome masonry. On either side 

 the nave, by the chancel, beneath the graceful arches 



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of the nave arcade, are the recumbent effigies of Sir 

 John de Ifield and his lady. The knight died in 1317. 

 He is represented as an armed Crusader, cross-legged, 

 1 a position," to quote " Thomas Ingoldsby," " so 

 prized by Templars in ancient and tailors in modern 

 days." The old pews came from St. Margaret's. 

 Westminster. But so dark is the church that details 

 can onlv with difficulty be examined, and to emerge 

 from the murk of this interior is to blink again in the 

 light of day, however dull that day may be. 



