25)8 Collections for a History of West Bean. 



of the West Dean registers records an expenditure upon it in 1838 

 of £58 for internal repairs, with a list of the subscribers. It was 

 taken down'in 1856, and the present chapel erected upon the same 

 lines,*, a south porch being substituted for that on the north, and an 

 or^an-chamber and vestry added on that side. The requisite funds 

 were supplied by the family of the patron and quondam rector, the 

 Rev. Henry Glossop. The chapel, a little gem of the first pointed 

 style, was dedicated in honor of the Holy Trinity (all record of its 

 ancient dedication having been lost), and consecrated by Bishop 

 Hamilton, of Salisbury, on July 16th, 1857 — who, preaching on 

 the occasion, selected as his text " Eccles., vii., 8, " Better is the 

 end of a thing than the beginning thereof." It is constructed ex- 

 ternally of flint with stone dressings, internally of brick and stone, 

 the pulpit being a combination of the same materials. It has a 

 stone bell-gable for one bell at the junction of nave and chancel, an 

 eastern window of three lights filled with stained glass, and an 

 elegant northern arcade of stone and marble, giving access to its 

 organ-chamber and vestry, and affords accommodation to about 

 sixty worshippers. It contains no memorials of any kind. 



The West Dean registers record two marriages celebrated here on 

 March 14th, 1474, and April 18th, 1715, and two burials, both on 

 August 28th, 1563. 



A stone, which may, I think, have formed the base of a churchyard 

 cross, is in the garden of the manor farm. 



The Rectory House. 



The rectory house, an old-fashioned commodious edifice of brick, 

 stands in a pleasant lawn, and is backed by fine elm trees. It faces 

 south, is surrounded by its well- timbered glebe, and looks across 

 the village and railway upon the yew-clad slopes of Dean hill. 

 Originally, as I suppose, a shallow straight-fronted building, with 

 a single range of rooms on each story, occupying its entire area, 

 opening out of one another, and lighted by windows on the north 

 and south, it has received subsequent additions in the shape of wings 

 for offices at either end, and a bay containing three rooms projected 

 from the centre of its southern front. These give it an irregular 



