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the church being of stone from Hamhill. They may have been 

 removed to their present position from an older chancel. There are 

 also to be seen the traces of foundations at the base of the north 

 and south walls, which seem to indicate that the chancel at one 

 time stopped short about ten feet west of the present termination, 

 and the line of a straight joint appears running down beneath the 

 north-east window. The head of a small doorway in the north 

 chancel wall is indented with a rectangular splay, forming the base 

 of a nitch, of which the wall above bears no further trace, showing 

 that if this stone is in its original position the Avail above has been 

 re -built. 



Entering the church, which has recently undergone a judicious 

 restoration under the direction of Mr. G. R. Crickmay, and which 

 it is not now necessary for me to describe, we observe the 

 Perpendicular font, formed of one piece with a section of the 

 adjacent column the old Purbeck base of the Early English font 

 already mentioned, a circle with four smaller circles for pilasters, 

 found inverted on the floor at the north-west corner of the tower 

 the grand brass of John Horsey, who died 8th of July, 1531, and 

 Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Eichard, and sister and heir of 

 Eobert Turges, of Turges Melcombe, Dorset, recently re-fixed by 

 one of the family, Major E. K. Horsey the matrix of another 

 brass which the writer discovered before the restoration commenced 

 the spaces formerly occupied by two altars at the east end of the 

 aisles with their piscinae, the northern piscina, like the font, being 

 formed out of the same block as the semi-pillar of the eastern 

 member of the arcade, the bracket near this north altar for the 

 support of an image, two small carved figures, found during the 

 restoration, two stone brackets, carved with foliage, the southern 

 ancient, the northern a recent reproduction (1889), which carried 

 the rood beam some specimens of 15th century seating and lastly, 

 the fragment of a wooden screen, which once divided the chancel 

 from the nave. 



Looking at the roof we observe remaining certain traces of 

 ancient colouring, the sacred monogram I.H.S. crowned, alternating 



