Archaeologia cantiana . tangular font is a remnant of thirteenth-century work,and still retains its four subsidiary columns of Purbeck, butthe present bowl is largely a patchwork, with modernplaster. The subsequent changes are not of great moment. In1340—50 a new west window was added, and toward the endof the fourteenth century a new east window, as well as sidewindows to the chancel, and a new window at the east endof the south aisle. [The fact of the existence of the sacristyaccounts for the absence of a window at the east end of thenorth aisle.—Ed.] In the sixteenth century a two-lightwind
Archaeologia cantiana . tangular font is a remnant of thirteenth-century work,and still retains its four subsidiary columns of Purbeck, butthe present bowl is largely a patchwork, with modernplaster. The subsequent changes are not of great moment. In1340—50 a new west window was added, and toward the endof the fourteenth century a new east window, as well as sidewindows to the chancel, and a new window at the east endof the south aisle. [The fact of the existence of the sacristyaccounts for the absence of a window at the east end of thenorth aisle.—Ed.] In the sixteenth century a two-lightwindow was introduced in the north aisle to replace a smallslit, part of which, close by, still remains. The pulpit, with sounding-board, is Jacobean, the westerngallery early eighteenth-century work. [This gallery was 160 LOWER HALSTOW CHURCH. abolished at the recent restoration, and its remains, turnedbalusters, made into a screen enclosing a vestry at the westend of the south aisle, beneath the tower.—Ed.] The pews. •SCALE raSTT- •° * ° to so 3o 4q h. |mm| * —i 1 f- belong to about 1750, at which date there appear to havebeen carried out considerable repairs and alterations. Amongthese may be enumerated the enlargement of the south win-dow of the belfry, the straightening out of the roof-pitchesof nave and aisles, and sundry repairs in brick. The twowall-posts which abut against the north wall of the towerare probably only makeshifts. The gutter between thenave-roof and the tower has no doubt been faulty, and theends of the beams becoming rotten in consequence, the postsabove mentioned had to be introduced to make good thedefect. The old roofs, probably coeval with the erection of theaisles, exhibit a, marked Kentish peculiarity, viz., the expo- LOWEU HALSTOW CHURCH, 161 sure of the truss upon the outer wall-surface of the gables.[Internally nave and chancel alike are roofed with tie-beamand truss-rafter roofs of seven cants. The tie-beams of the
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