THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
hundred and ninety-nine years. Why I should suppose that 
Knights Templars were occasionally buried at this church will 
appear in some future letter, when we come to treat more 
particularly concerning the property they possessed here, and 
the intercourse that subsisted between them and the priors of 
Selborne. 
We must now proceed to the chancel, properly so called, 
w^hich seems to l)e coeval with the church, and is in the same 
plain unadorned style, though neatly kept. This room measures 
thirty-one feet in length, and sixteen feet and a half in breadth, 
and is wainscoted all round, as high as to the bottom of the 
windows. The space for the communion table is raised two 
steps above the rest of the floor, and railed in with oaken 
balusters. Here I shall say somewhat of the windows of the 
chancel in particular, and of the whole fabric in general. They 
are mostly of that simple and unadorned sort called Lancet, 
some single, some double, and some in triplets. At the east 
end of the chancel are two of a moderate size, near each other ; 
and in the north wall two very distant small ones, unequal in 
length and height : and in the south wall are two, one on each 
side of the chancel door, that are l)road and squat, and of a 
different order. At the east end of the south aisle of the church 
there is a large lancet-window in a triplet ; and two very small, 
narrow single ones in the south wall, and a broad squat window 
beside, and a double lancet one in the west end ; so that the 
appearance is very irregular. In the north aisle are two 
windows, made shorter when the roof was sloped; and in the 
north transept a large triple window, shortened at the time of 
a repair in 1721 ; when over it was opened a round one of 
considerable size, which affords an agreeal)le light, and renders 
that chantry the most cheerful part of the edifice. 
The church and chancels have all coved roofs, ceiled about 
the year 1683 ; before which they were open to the tiles and 
shingles, showing the naked rafters, and threatening the con- 
gregation Avith the fall of a spar, or a l)low from a piece of 
loose mortar. 
On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval white 
marble monument, with the following inscription ; and at tlie 
