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was fairly well executed ; and two pedestals, for statues, were 

 better cut than anything else. All the worked stone is granite, 

 with the exception of the sill of a small two-light window, of 

 freestone. 



Upon such interesting features and so much material being 

 made visible, Mr. Spry, approached once more, came forward 

 with a generous donation ; other well-wishers (especially Mr. 

 Baring-Gould) kindly contributed; and thus matters proceeded 

 — with the happiest results. There was no committee, and there- 

 fore no committee meetings were held ; by mutual suggestion 

 one step after another was decided upon, till the whole was 

 finished. 



Practically no difficulty was experienced in getting out the 

 plans for the masons' guidance. The sill of the east window 

 had fallen, but there was still about four feet of wall standing ; 

 therefore it could never have been lower than that. The height 

 of this wide window would not permit the walls being much less 

 than nine feet high, and there were not enough coigns for them 

 to be higher than that ; therefore nine feet was the height 

 settled upon. The gable-ends and gable-top easily gave the 

 pitch of the roof ; the jambs of the west door were in place, 

 and, though those of the north door were fallen, the wall-splay 

 was there, and also the arch-head, to give the width between 

 them. The sill of the two-light window being found outside 

 the west door suggested a position in that gable ; and the only 

 other window was a small single-light, of which the position 

 was not ascertained, but which might be set up where it would 

 give most light to an officiating minister. The proper position 

 of the two pedestals was unknown ; let them, then, be set on 

 either side of the east window ; while, as for two corbels of 

 which the use was not evident but which might have been 

 connected with a screen, let them be set where the ends of a 

 screen-top would most probably have been. 



The floor was a problem ; no trace, as was said, having been 

 found. There would be probably no step up to the altar ; and 

 a level struck from the foot-stone of the west door gave the 

 reasonable height of 2 feet 8 inches to the table-top, the tread 

 of the north door being 1 1 inches above this level. But there 



