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• In fpknking of the church, -I have all along talked of the eafl:
arid/tvelbend,; -as if the chancel flood exa&ly true to thofe
points: of the computed *bu,t this .is.' by. no means the cafe, for the
fabrifc'Beats fo imuch to-the north of tire eaft that the four corner»
o f . the tower, and not the four fides, ftand to the four cardinal
points, -The belt method of accounting. for this deviation ferns
tp tre,5 that the' workmen, who probably were employed in the
longed days, endeavoured to let .the chancels to the riling of the
fun.. . . • .
Clofeby the church; at the well end,, ftands the vlcarage-houfe j
an-old, but fpomy'and dbhvenxent edifice/ .It feces very agreeably
to the.morning'fun, and is dividedfrom the village by a neat and
cheerful court/ According- tp/themanherof old times, the hall
\yas open to the roofs, and fo continued, probably,, till, the vicars
became family-men, and began to Want more convenicncies; when.
they, flung a floor acrofs, and, by parntions, divided the fpace into
chambers. ' In this hall we remember a date, fome.time in the
•reign o f Elizabeth-, It Was over the door that leads to the flairs,
ij Behind the houfe is a garden of an irregular lhape, but well laid;
nut; .whole terrace, commands fo romantic- and pifturefque a pro-
fpeft, that, the firif nrafter in landscape might contemplate it with
plcafure, and deem it an ohjedt well worthy of his pencil.
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