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second porch through which access was obtained to the original 

 one. In carrying out their plan they nearly doubled the area 

 of the fabric, taking down the North and South walls of the 

 nave, and introducing two arcades in their place. These lack 

 the usual symmetry, as the North comprises five bays and the 

 South only three ; but the irregularity may possibly be accounted 

 for by their anxiety to preserve in its position the earlier porch 

 on the South. The bell-turret was meanwhile rebuilt, and the 

 chancel with its graceful pointed arch was kept intact, being 

 strengthened with a heavy buttress on the South-East angle. 

 The quality of their workmanship may be judged of by the 

 East, window of the South aisle, which has five lights and is 

 finished with beautiful geometric tracery, worked in a single 

 block of stone measuring 6 feet 6 inches by 4 feet. Quite 

 recently the Easternmost half of the North aisle was taken 

 down and widened, and a small vestry added beyond it ; but 

 between these widely distant periods of alteration various 

 inartistic embellishments had been introduced. On the South 

 side of the chancel the low arched " rector's doorway " of early 

 times was built up, and replaced by a square commonplace 

 door of greater altitude Westwards, and the small Early English 

 East light was removed to make way for " a gaping round- 

 headed sash window of small square panes." In the earlier 

 portion of the North wall has been placed the upper part of 

 the effigy of a priest holding a chalice, which rests within an 

 arched recess, and may date from the 14th century. A pre- 

 Reformation bell, with the inscription AVE . M | RIA . 

 GRACIA . PLENA, and another, probably cast in 1764, are 

 hung in the double turret supported by the original buttresses. 

 An air of hoary antiquity surrounds the building, wherein till 

 fifty years ago, according to the evidence of an old member of 

 the Club, the praise of the congregation was led by an orchestra, 

 consisting of a clarinet, bass fiddle, etc. 



As time permitted of the digression, the drive was continued 

 towards Swarland, where attention was drawn to the noteworthy 

 obelisk erected in 1807 to the memory of Lord Nelson by Mr 

 Alexander Davison of Swarland, who states in the inscription on 

 the pedestal that " not to commemorate the public virtue and 

 heroic achievements of Nelson, which is the duty of England, 



