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 palled over in filence; fxnce, from their thick and clumfy
ftrufture, and the rude flourifhed-work of their hinges, they may
poffibly 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 fliingles. 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 muph igore eligible., than
tiles. For fhingles well feafoned, and cleft from quartered timber,
never warp, nor let in drifting fnpw, . nor do. :they ihiver with,
fee# • nor are they liable to be blown off, like tiles; but, when,
well nailed, down, laft for a long, period, as experience, has Ihown
usfin this place,, where thofe that face to the nforth. are known, to
have endured, untouched, by undoubted tradition; for more thar^a,
century.
Conftdering the fize of the church, and the extent of the parilh,
the church-yard is very fcanty; and efpecially as a}Lr wifii tq be:
buried on the fouth-fide, which is become fuch a mafs of mortality
that no perfon can he there interred without difturhing 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 tho%
parts feveral yards without the prefent.limits.. At the eaft end.are
a few gravesyet none till' very lately UU the north-fide but,
as two or three families of bell 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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