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the nave. There were also eventually a west gallery, and two 
private side galleries ; and the chapel could not have held more 
than 250 to 300 people at its utmost capacity. It does not say 
much for the congregation that in 1756, "twelve sacraments" are 
stated to cost "3s. Id. each." 
We pass to the secular antiquities, which are the most important 
relics of the past the township has to show. 
Standing on the southern face of the headland next the 
Sound, three buildings are shown in the old map, apparently 
drawn as square structures, armed with cannon, and collectively 
called "the fortress of Stonehouse." One is placed at what is now 
called Eastern King; another at Devil's Point, and the third 
nearly midway, where there was once a little cove used as a land- 
ing place. Naturally the existing castle at Devil's Point ; the 
tower used as a policeman's residence near the Winter Villa; 
and the remains at Eastern King, are at once suggested. There 
can be no doubt that the ruins at the latter point are part of one 
of these structures ; and as little that the other two fall into the 
same category. Here, therefore, we have the " antiquities of Stone- 
house." It is quite true that the Eastern King fort was really 
square, and that the Devil's Point tower is not ; but we can hardly 
expect minute accuracy on all details. What is more to the point 
is that there is apparently an attempt to indicate an octagonal plan 
for the central building ; and that this structure is embrasured, 
while the Devil's Point tower is plain — a very noteable distinction 
which exists between the present towers. 
Any one who examines the Devil's Point and Winter Villa 
buildings can see that they are erected of precisely the same 
materials, and in the same style. The walls are of limestone in 
both, and the dressings of granite. The portholes are formed on 
one plan, of practically the same dimensions : and the entrance 
doorway is of the same character in each. They are clearly 
designed by the same head, and carried out by the same hands ; 
and if their identification with the structures in the map is correct, 
instead of dating from the time of Elizabeth, as commonly suggested 
for the tower at the Point, they belong to the reign of Henry VIII. , 
and are among the " blokehouses, castles, and platforms " he 
erected "upon divers frontiers of the Kealme," guarding, in the 
two years 1537-39, every exposed spot along the coast by an 
