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LYCHNOSCOPES IN CHURCHES IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND.

angle, inclosing a triangular space within. In this wall the "low window[1]," is inserted, commanding a view from the outside in a direction nearly N. N. W, and not eastward. Internally the window is in a very perfect state, though entirely blocked on the outside by a modern vestry. It measures two and a half feet in height, by one foot four inches in breadth, has a pointed trefoil head with flattish chamfered cusps. The sill is four and a half feet from the pavement, but was somewhat less from the soil of the churchyard. The west face of the capital of the pillar bears a rudely cut cherub, displaying on its breast a plain shield of the Edwardian form, and a smaller shield of the same character occurs on the N. E. face of the capital of a very curious little square shaft of stone which forms the eastern support of the eastern arch. Further eastward of this arch a priest's door appears to have formed a part of the arrangement. This small shaft was inserted in order that worshippers in the transept might more readily see the elevation of the Host through the opening which it makes in the wall.

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Geometrical view, from Chancel, looking Southwards.

  1. See opposite A in the accompanying wood-cut.