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the door. In the North wall •' of the chancel is the lower 

 half of a mutilated carved stone figure in relief of a priest 

 in the act of reading the Gospel, with an acolyte holding a 

 candle on each side of him. He is wearing a chasuble, 

 dalmatic, and alb, with apparel and buskins on his feet. In 

 each bottom corner is a i-ose, probably either that of York 

 or Lancaster. In the floor is an ancient sepulchral stone 

 having upon it a full-length incised cross with circular endings 

 mounted on a calvary, and the feminine scissors. 



The chancel and the present side aisles were built by the 

 present Patron, the Rev. James Allgood, in the year 1877. 

 I have not found any i-ecord wlien the original chancel was 

 demolished ; but a stunted one had been erected without any 

 ecclesiastica' features, and this he removed, and had the 

 present one built in its place upon, I believe, the old found- 

 ations. I lay the more stress upon this as the chancel is 

 not in line with the nave, having a very decided inclination 

 towards the South, and the chancel arch is at right angles 

 with it, and not with the nave. This is an instance of that 

 orientation that is so common in churches of that date, the 

 meaning of which is a vexed question with archaeologists. 

 We may well believe that this new chancel is a fair repre- 

 sentation of what the original one was, and it does much 

 credit to the builder's taste and judgment. At the same 

 time the side aisles, which from the Churchwardens' accounts 

 had been pulled down apparently in 1792 to save the expense 

 of repairing them, were re-built. This has been a great 

 improvement. Archdeacon Sharp had ordered the stone 

 arching over them to be removed as ruinous, and slate I'oofs 

 to be put on instead ; but the parishioners demolished them, 

 and walled up the arches, as being less costly. The old side 

 aisles were much broader than the present ones, as shown 

 by the foundations that have been come upon in digging 

 graves, and it appears from the order of the Archdeacon that 



•* Up to 1870 this stone tigure was bailt into the Bast wall of the 

 chancel. Cf. Wilson, Churchen of Lindisfarne, pp. 92-93, where the church 

 is figured and where there is a plan of the structure before the rebuilding 

 of the aisles. — Ed. 



