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it has been gilded in places and is ornamented with a small band 

 of scroll work round the edges ; there is an added spike for a crest. 

 It is a real helmet, not a funeral one ; the rivets for the lining 

 remain inside. Tradition says it belonged to the first Lord Arundel 

 of Wardour, who died in 1639. The last window on the south 

 side is now utilized as the front of the organ. All the seats are 

 of oak and modern, but against the walls is some good linen-fold 

 panelling of the seventeenth century, or very late sixteenth century. 

 The floor is of modern tiles, but in the sacrarium is a fine brass to 

 Lawrence Hyde, of "West Hatch. He was the great-grandfather of 

 Queen Mary, 1689, and Queen Anne, 1702. He is represented 

 standing in a Church in front of his six sons, facing his wife and 

 four daughters. The inscription is : — 



" Here lyeth Lawrence Hyde of West Hatch Esq r . who had issue by 

 Anne his wife six sons and four daughters and 'died in the year of the 

 incarnation of Our Lord God 1590. Beati qui moriuntur in domino." 



There are also slabs in memory of several members of the Arundel 

 family, one to Thomas first Baron Arundel of Wardour, A.D. 1639, 

 another to his daughter, Anne, wife of Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore 

 and Lord of Maryland, in America, A.D. 1649. Other members 

 of the family buried here are Henry Lord Arundel, 1746 ; The Hon. 

 Henry Arundel, son of Henry Lord Arundel died August, 1721 ; 

 Henry Arundel, seventh lord, 1756 ; James Everard, ninth baron, 

 1817 ; Mary Lady Arundel, his second wife, 1852 ; and one to Lady 

 Audley, 1743. On the north wall are three tablets, one to Thomas 

 Jukes, 1846, and under it one to Antony Combes, Vicar, 1644. 

 Further east is a brass tablet to Vere Benet Stanford, 1894. On 

 the south side is a monument to Mrs. Bridjet Jay, 1724. At the 

 west end of the chancel is a great mass of added walling, to act as an 

 abutment to the tower ; it has a pointed arch which does not follow 

 the lines of the tower arch beyond {see Plate IV.). The construction 

 of a portion of the jambs and walling over the arch is peculiar ; above 

 the crown of the arch is a very small light cut in a single stone (it 

 is now blocked). It formerly lit a passage from the staircase to 

 the bell chamber of the tower. In the southern corner, in line 

 with this wall, there is a small window, now blocked. This origi- 

 nally was an outside light to the tower staircase, but was blocked 



