[81] It is likely that the idea of a gallery at the west end of the nave, was first suggested by the gallery of the Rood Screen at the eastern end.
[82] At H.... church, Kent, for instance.
[83] Chertsey, Surrey.
[84] One of the churches in Edinburgh, for instance.
[85] 2 Chron. vi. 13.
[86] Nehem. viii. 4.
[87] As at Magdalene College, Oxford. "Formerly, when the annual sermon was preached on the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, from the stone pulpit before the chapel of Magdalene College, Oxford, the whole area before it was covered with rushes and grass, to represent, it is said, the wilderness: and doubtless also for the accommodation of the hearers; the seats being set for the University authorities."—History of Pues.
[88] Such an one formerly existed near the cathedral of Exeter.
[89] Parker's "Glossary of Architecture," part i. p. 171. At the west end of Boxley Church, Kent, is a Galilee. There are very few—if any—other churches in which the ancient Galilee is to be found.
[90] Many of the wooden pulpits have dates upon them. The earliest of these is A.D. 1590, on a pulpit at Ruthin, Denbighshire.