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Ringing for the success of Duke William \4 <

1747. Paid P. Bancroft for entertaining 12

Clergy 12 11

1748. Paid to the vicar for 3 orders about

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a tour of the exterior

Coming out of the church into the churchyard the visitor is invited to walk round the yard and view the building from different aspects. He will sec and admire its noble proportions, and as he does so he must be stirred with feelings of gratitude to those " Forefathers of the Hamlet " who arc sleeping around him for erecting, and caring for at different periods, such a magnificent monument of Christianity in our parish.

As we pass round the church towards the tower, we shall see a stone in the south-west corner with the letters I.U.S. incised, which may or may not have been used somewhere else before being plated there. The junction of the west wall of the south aisle with the angle buttress of the tower can easily be seen, while tin the north side the wall of the north aisle has been built into the square buttress of the earlier tower, one of the important evidences for my reconstructed plan of the early church.

Along the north wall wc can distinguish the corner buttress of the Heffcrston Chapel, and passing round to the east end we can sec where the north-cast corner has been added. 1 have an idea that some of the picces of tracery which I have just gathered from the vicarage garden formed the tracery of this window before the alterations, because the scatings of the mullions are plainly of a different size than those of the other windows. Passing along you will notice the blocked up doorway in the east wall of the chancel. This was always spoken of as a leper door, but my discovery of the Aumbry has quite exploded that idea.