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the four sides, stand to the four cardinal points. The 

 best method of accounting for this deviation seems to 

 be, that the workmen, who probably were employed in 

 the longest days, endeavoured to set the chancels to 

 the rising of the sun. 





THE VICARAOB MOOOU 



Close by the church, at the west end, stands the 

 vicarage house ; an old, but roomy and convenient 

 edifice. It faces very agreably to the morning sun, 

 and is divided from the village by a neat and cheerful 

 court. According to the manner of old times, the hall 

 was open to the roof; and so continued, probably, till 

 the vicars became family-men, and began to want more 

 conveniences ; when they flung a floor across, and, by 

 partitions, divided the space into chambers. In this 

 hall we remember a date, some time in the reign of 

 Elizabeth; it was over the door that leads to the stairs. 



Behind the house is a garden of an irregular shape, 

 but well laid out ; whose terrace commands so romantic 

 and picturesque a prospect, that the first master in 

 landscape might contemplate it with pleasure, and deem 

 it an object well worthy of his pencil. 



