texts of scripture everywhere painted;" but, if this were so, they are now concealed by the whitewash. Such are not uncommon in neighbouring churches. No "poor man's box conveniently seated" remains, but there are indications of its having been fixed to the back of the bench nearest to the south door.
The roof is open to the tiles, being, like the seats, Gothic in design and of seventeenth century execution. The same may be said of the tower, which is battlemented, and finished off with pinnacles surmounted by balls, and has a somewhat heavy appearance. But it is solid and substantial, and it is evident that no expense was spared to make it—so far as the skill of the time could make it—worthy of its purpose and of the donor. There are five bells. No. 1. has the inscription:
"IHS NAZARENVS REX IVDEORVM FILI DEI
MISERERE MEI : GEORGE WOOLF VICAR :
I : MICHELL : C : W : W : N. 1720."
Nos. 2. 4. and 5. contain the alphabet in Lombardic capitals; but the inscription and date on each of them,—
"THOMAS NOBBIS MADE ME 1641"—
show that they are not of the antiquity which generally renders the few specimens we have of alphabet bells so peculiarly interesting, but probably they were copied from the bells in the more ancient tower. No. 3. has in Lombardic capitals the fragment—
"ESME: CCATHERINA,"
and is consequently of ante-Reformation date.