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reached the Parish Church, and were received by the incum- 

 bent, Rev. J. G. Shotton, B.A., who read a short paper 

 explanatory of its history. It belongs to the Early English 

 period, and was restored in 1838, when a new chancel 

 and North wall were built, and a wide porch thrown out 

 to serve the uses of a vestry and an entrance door. The 

 North walls of the chancel and the aisle are only blank 

 blocks of masonry, but the restorers inserted three new 

 windows in the old South wall of the nave in keeping with 

 those they had placed in the chancel, and in the West and 

 East ends of the aisle. The plan of the building is unusual, 

 the long nave being divided into two portions by a central 

 arch corresponding with that which opened from the nave 

 into the chancel, each of which is ancient. Its Eastern 

 division has a North aisle, the three arches of which form 

 the arcade which dates from the 13th century. It is probable 

 that the nave and baptistery at its Western end are of the 

 same age and were built at the instance of Lord Richard 

 de Vesci, who was vicar at Chatton with Doddington at the 

 time of the Ordinatio in 1224, and that an early Saxon 

 chapel was then converted into the chancel, as had been 

 done at a similar extension of Kirknewton Church about the 

 same period. The font in the West end occupies a site 

 in the moi-tuary chapel of the family of Sir Horace St. Paul, 

 who in 1789 settled at Ewart, an ancient Bastle similar to 

 that of Doddington. In his youth he proved high-tempered 

 and quarrelsome, and having slain his opponent in a duel 

 was forced to betake himself to Austria, where as a friend 

 of the Archduchess Maria Theresa, he accepted service in the 

 army and experienced the varying fortunes of the Seven 

 Years' War, during which he was shut up with the beleaguered 

 army in Prague. At its conclusion, the military chest having 

 become greatly impoverished, he was appointed Secretary of 

 the British Embassy in Paris, where he continued till 1776. 

 He died at Ewart in 1812. Before leaving the Churcli the 

 party had the pleasure of listening to a full and graphic 

 account of his career from his kinsman by marriage, Mr G. G. 

 Butler, Ewart Park. 



