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being found in good prefervation, was worked into the wall, and 
is the grand entrance into the church : nor are the folding-doors 
to be paffed over in filence ; fince, from their thick and clumfy 
ftrufture, and the rude flouriflied-work of their hinges, they may 
pofEbly be as ancient as the door-way itfelf. 
The whole roof of the fouth aile, and the fouth-fide of the 
roof of the middle aile, is covered with oaken Ihingles inftead of 
tiles, on account of their lightnefs, which favours the ancient and 
crazy timber-frame. And, indeed, the confideration of accidents 
by fire excepted, this fort of roofing is much more eligible than 
tiles. For fliinglcs well feafoned, and cleft from quartered timber, 
never warp, nor let in drifting fnow; nor do they (hiver with 
froft ; nor are they liable to be blown ofif, like tiles ; but, when 
well nailed down, laft for a long period, as experience has ihown 
us in this place, where thofe that face to the north are known to 
have endured, untouched, by undoubted tradition for more than a 
century. 
Confidering the iize of the church, and the extent of the parifn, 
the church-yard is very fcanty ; and efpecially as all wifli to be 
buried on the fouth-fide, which is become fuch a mafs of mortality 
that no perfon can be there interred without difturbing or difplacing 
the bones of his anceftors. There is reafon to fuppofe that it. once 
was larger, and extended to what is now the vicarage court and 
-garden ; becaufe many human bones have been dug up in thofe 
parts feveral yards without the prefent limits. At the eafl end are 
a few graves ; yet none till very lately on the north-fide but, 
as two or three families of beft repute have begun to bury in that 
quarter, prejudice may wear out by degrees, and their example be 
followed by the reft of the neighbourhood. 
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