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ANTIQUITIES 
The manor house called Temple is at present a single 
building, running in length from south to north, and has 
been occupied as a common farm house from time imme- 
morial. The south end is modern, and consists of a brew- 
house, and then a kitchen. The middle part is a hall 
twenty-seven feet in length and nineteen feet in breadth ; 
and has been formerly open to the top ; but there is now a 
floor above it, and also a chimney in the western wall. The 
roofing consists of strong massive rafter- work ornamented 
with carved roses. I have often looked for the lamb and 
TEMPLE, IN THE PARISH OF SELBORNE. 
flag, the arms of the Knights Templars, without success ; 
but in one corner found a fox with a goose on his back, so 
coarsely executed that it required some attention to make 
out the device. 
Beyond the hall to the north is a small parlour with a 
vast heavy stone chimney-piece ; and, at the end of all, the 
chapel or oratory, whose massive thick walls and narrow 
windows at once bespeak great antiquity. This room is 
only sixteen feet by sixteen feet eight inches ; and full seven- 
teen feet nine inches in height. The ceiling is formed of vast 
joists, placed only five or six inches apart. Modern delicacy 
