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arches, pillars, and interior generally. The ornamental tracery 

 is missing also from two windows on the north side, but the out- 

 line of these is the same as the perfect ones in size and shape. 



Notice that the two large windows in the east front have 

 been reconstructed recently. Mr. Lee credits the late Sir 

 Edgar MacCulloch with drawing the designs for these, from 

 which the masons worked ; but once more the artizans could 

 not enter into the spirit of the design — the curves are flattened, 

 do not naturally combine one with the other, and the tracery 

 in them is inferior to that of the original ones in the side walls. 

 There are no signs of a screen ever having been erected. The 

 interior was at one time disfigured by great galleries, but 

 these were removed when the new roof was erected. 



Notice the two entrances, both on the north side, one 

 through the porch, the other through the Tower. 



Mr. Lee has a sketch of the north side of the church 

 published early in the century, in which there is no circular 

 window over the women's entrance ; but in a wood-cut in a 

 guide published shortly after, the window appears. Was this 

 window inserted at the time of the extensive alterations (early 

 part of the 19th century) ? Mr. Lee leaves this point 

 undecided ; he thinks it might have been found necessary to 

 insert it at some time to give light to one of the galleries with 

 which the interior was then encumbered. Some marks in the 

 masonry, e.g., the pebbles inserted in the cement may bear out 

 the idea that it is a modern addition, but these marks may have 

 been made at any of the numerous re-pointings, and the pebbles 

 occur in other parts of the outer walls. 



The said rose window, however, looks so well designed 

 and skilfully executed as to be worthy of the original workmen. 



The square Tower is elegant in design and beautifully 

 built : it is about 114 feet in height ; there is a break in the 

 masonry, stones of a different size being introduced at a height 

 of about 20 feet. The summit commands a splendid view, 

 bounded by the sea on all sides except the east. 



Curious old metal mugs are still used for collecting the 

 gifts of the congregation. 



In the churchyard, north side, close to the church, is the 

 tomb, dated 1625, of the Rev. James Perchard, a former 

 rector. It is, perhaps, the oldest outdoor monument in the 

 island. 



Mr. Edmund T. Nicolle, Deputy of St. Helier, in his 

 account of the visit of the Societe Jersiaise to Guernsey in 



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