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the west end of the centre aisle, practically balancing the extra 

 length of the eastern end. From the tower to the north extends 

 a covered porch of ornamental pattern, but there are no other 

 excrescences to this church. 



The evolution of this church is comparatively simple, per- 

 haps the most simple of any church in Guernsey. The nucleus 

 of the building is undoubtedly the centre aisle, which was 

 lengthened first towards the east and eventually towards the 

 west by having a tower with a porch built on to it. The % two 

 aisles were added, each as a whole, and there was not, I read it, 

 very much of an interval between the building of the north 

 aisle and the south aisle. There is no doubt whatever that the 

 porch of the tower was built before the north aisle, as the angle 

 buttress of the porch shows ; also the walling of the porch next 

 to the north aisle is of dressed stone and now covered over with 

 a drain to prevent the lodgment of leaves between the two walls. 

 It would not have been likely, and I doubt if it would have 

 been possible, to have built a wall of dressed granite less than 

 two feet away from a wall of undressed granite. Had the porch 

 been built later it would have been certainly incorporated with 

 or made an excrescence of the west end of the north aisle. 



This church has one piscina, at the south aisle, thus show- 

 ing the church to have been completed before the Reformation. 

 It has also the matrix of a brass of one figure, which is unfor- 

 tunately placed in the open air, where it is obviously deterio- 

 rating. 



The churchyard has an interesting ledger slab to the 

 memory of a Rector who figured for a long time and conspi- 

 cuously in the time of the Colloque, Jean Perchard, the ancestor 

 of the better known Sir Peter Perchard, Lord Mayor of London 

 in 1804. He died in 1653, so the inscription informs us, aged 

 72, and after 47 years' ministry. 



It is hardly necessary to draw attention to the interesting 

 situation of the church at the head of a dell and the consequent in- 

 fluence on the level of the floor of the church, and in connection 

 with this, I would draw attention to the efforts at succeeding 

 restorations to minimize this slope. I feel sure that the slope 

 at one time was much greater than it is now, and that there 

 were steps down into the well of the church at the west end, 

 both from the tower and also from the women's door in the 

 north aisle, and it must have been really hard work for an 

 elderly person to have progressed from the west to the east. 



THE FOREST CHURCH. 



The smallest church, but not the least charming in Guernsey. 

 The evolution of this church is very simple, and resembles in 

 most respects that of St. Martin's. The east end of the south 



