. AN EARLY CHURCH. Homeland^ Copyright Bishopstone Church, Sussex. A repository of early work : porch is Saxon (long and short work at angles); tower (in four stages marked by set-olis; spire supported by corbel-table) and porch doorway, Norman ; windows, Early English. Early oratories, 33 one cannot tell—the plan changed from circularto rectangular, but the method of construction re-mained the same till long after the period of theNorman conquest. One of these buildings whichremains almost exactly as it wasAn Early when first erecte

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. AN EARLY CHURCH. Homeland^ Copyright Bishopstone Church, Sussex. A repository of early work : porch is Saxon (long and short work at angles); tower (in four stages marked by set-olis; spire supported by corbel-table) and porch doorway, Norman ; windows, Early English. Early oratories, 33 one cannot tell—the plan changed from circularto rectangular, but the method of construction re-mained the same till long after the period of theNorman conquest. One of these buildings whichremains almost exactly as it wasAn Early when first erected, is the so-calledOratory. oratory of Gallerus, in the Dingle,in Ireland; and if it could beproved that this was erected originally for thepurposes of divine worship, one would probablybe justified in regarding it as the most ancientChristian church in Western Europe. The formof building resembles a wide-beamed boat turnedwith the keel upwards. The inside measurementof this oratory is 15 feet 3 ins. by 10 doorway is 5 feet 4 ins. in height, the oppositeend having

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