Archaeologia cantiana . -deacon, admitted 10 Kal. June, 1295. Of the actual building to which these thirteenthcentury extracts, which I have quoted, would apply,some portions are still extant, although much ofthis church dates from the fourteenth and fifteencenturies. If you examine the arcade which runs betweenthe nave and the south aisle, you will at once observethe western pier; with its clawed, square base; andits nearly square abacus. It certainly was part ofthe Early English church; so, also, were other pillars officium in the Sarnm Missal (folio Ivj., ed. Paris, 1555) beginswith Is. Iv.
Archaeologia cantiana . -deacon, admitted 10 Kal. June, 1295. Of the actual building to which these thirteenthcentury extracts, which I have quoted, would apply,some portions are still extant, although much ofthis church dates from the fourteenth and fifteencenturies. If you examine the arcade which runs betweenthe nave and the south aisle, you will at once observethe western pier; with its clawed, square base; andits nearly square abacus. It certainly was part ofthe Early English church; so, also, were other pillars officium in the Sarnm Missal (folio Ivj., ed. Paris, 1555) beginswith Is. Iv. 1. Sitientes venite ad aquas dicit Dominus. * Hasted is in error as to the Christian name. Bishop JohnKempe, afterwards Arclibishop of York and of Canterbury, left the seeof London in 1426. It was Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London from1450 to 1489, who was patron of Staplehurst as Lord of Stapelherstor Blecourt, and presented Nicholas Wright to the living, 2Gth , upon the decease of William Lee, the former SODTn DOOR OF STAPLEnUtiST CHURCH. CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STAPLEHTJRST. 191 of the arcade, all of which, as you will see, are nowmore or less out of the perpendicular; so likewise mayhave been the elegantly slender shafts which stillremain as supports of the inner arch of a window, inthe middle of the south wall. Some would say also,and not without reason, that the elaborate ironworkupon the south door was ornamentation of the EarlyEnglish church, of the thkteenth century. The fishes,lizards, and other reptiles, into which the iron orna-ments of the hinges and their surroundings are formed,are in the style of such early work, but the fact is thatan ingenious village smith might have made them atany subsequent date. They are shewn in the annexedengraving. I would ask your attention to a centralornament which may have been intended for a mono-gram. If so, it was not made in the days of the oldblack letter. The forms resemble the Roman Eand B or K. In the north wal
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