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By Rev. ROGER W. H. DALISON. 



(Read July 19th, 1S90.J 



JHE Parish of Powerstock or Poorstock contains many 

 points of interest, the chief of which centre 

 round the Church and the grassy mounds of 

 an old Castle, which was re-built and tenanted 

 by King John. There are also some interesting 

 traditions which should be recorded ere they 

 are lost sight of. 



The Church is renowned for a very beautiful 

 Norman arch, which has the appearance of 

 having undergone a settlement, the arch itself 

 being very much askew. But as the masonry on the top is 

 perfectly level, I consider that the archway has never had a 

 settlement at all, and that the crooked appearance it has arises 

 from the fact that it was built by the people of the parish 

 themselves, who did not understand the technicalities of arch- 

 building. 



In not very remote times, that is within the last fifty years, 

 it was the custom in the Parish Church at the time of administer- 

 ing the Sacrament of Baptism, for the parent to take the child 

 round to a little door leading into the west end of the Baptistry 



