12 Notes on the Church of St. Mary 



transept, that to the latter being cut in the earlier wall. As this 

 doorway was built up in the fifteenth century (as proved by the oyster 

 shell test) the stoup here could only have been in use for a short period. 



In the next stage of the tower over the groining doorways 

 exist on the cardinal sides, three of which originally opened 

 into the chancel and transepts (respectively) above the collars of 

 the trussed rafter roofs, of which the roof of the north transept is 

 a re-production. Another doorway, to serve a similar use in the 

 higher roof of the nave, occurs in the next stage of the tower, and 

 at present opens on the outside of the modern roof; so that the 

 lower doorway on the west has no apparent meaning but to preserve 

 uniformity, unless the room in this stage of the tower were used as 

 a watching chamber. All these doorways had been closed, but 

 those on the east and north faces have now been re-opened and 

 fitted with doors. 



The font is a plain one of fourteenth century date. 

 The alms-box is made of a solid block of oak, and has staples for 

 the three locks enjoined by the canon of 1603. 



I must not, even at the risk of unduly extending the limits of 

 this paper, omit to mention what is known of the " ups and downs | 

 of the weathercock. The earliest tidings of it that I can gather 

 introduce it, some twenty years ago, as a fragment lying on the 

 inside sill of the belfry window, where it had probably been 1 

 disuse for a long time, The late incumbent, the Rev. W. Ewartj 

 (vicar of the parish, 1862 to 1873), rescued it from this comparative 

 oblivion, and had it mounted in a glass case with carved oak frame,) 

 and set up in the hall of the vicarage. Beneath it was painted thej 

 following inscription : — 



FRAGMENTVM * QVOD * VILE * PVTAS * ET ' INTVILE * FERRVM * , 

 TRITON ' SACRA * SVPER * MCENIA * NOTVS ' EGO ' 

 INDICIVM " POPVLO ' PLVVIAS ' VENTOSQVE * SEQVACES * 

 LONGA ' PER ' ANNORVM ' S^ICVLA ' PERTVLERAM . 

 ILLVM • NOSTRAM ' APICEM * QVONDAM ' CRVX * DIGNA ' CORONET j 

 HIC ' MERITA ' REQVIE * FESSVS ' AT * IPSE * FRVAR * 

 QVILIBET * ES * LECTOR ' TIBI . SINT * TRANQVILLA ' SENECTVS I 

 ET • GRATES ' HOMINVM * POSTtyVB ' PERIOLA * SALVS 



