Warrant Cushion Church. 



By Rev. J. PENNY. 



(Read August 13th, 1856.) 



PROPOSE to take as the basis of my paper on this 

 Church a portion of the return which I made some 

 years ago to the Rural Dean, and then with your 

 permission to add some remarks on one or two 

 points. 



The Church consists of chancel, nave, and north 

 and south transepts, forming a Greek-cross, 50 feet 

 long from east to west, and 45 from north to south. 

 The chancel arch is Norman or Romanesque, 

 very plain and massive. The mouldings at the springing of the 

 arch appear to have been removed. It is considered by competent 

 judges to have been built before the Conquest, certainly not later 

 than 1150. In the east face ot the wall, just above the head of 

 the arch and equi-distant from the centre, are two so-called 

 " acoustic vases," about which I shall speak later on. There can 

 be no doubt that they were inserted when the wall was built. The 

 north transept belongs to the Early English period, and may pro- 

 bably be dated from 1220 to 1270. In the west wall there is a 

 lancet window, reaching so near to the ground as to suggest the 

 thought that it may have been intended for the same purpose as 



