. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . urch is, perhaps, not so attractiveas the interior. The addition of the modern steeple at itswestern end causes the Church to look unduly long, especiallyas the chancel roof is nearly on a level with the nave, andis only separated from it by a leaden ridge. The Church exhibits various architectural features, whichshew that from time to time it has been altered and renewed,as was likely to be the case with a Church the patronsof which were the hereditary Champions of England, whosefamili
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . urch is, perhaps, not so attractiveas the interior. The addition of the modern steeple at itswestern end causes the Church to look unduly long, especiallyas the chancel roof is nearly on a level with the nave, andis only separated from it by a leaden ridge. The Church exhibits various architectural features, whichshew that from time to time it has been altered and renewed,as was likely to be the case with a Church the patronsof which were the hereditary Champions of England, whosefamilies have always used it as their natural place of has been already called to the apparently unduelength of the Church ; and the visitor will notice in theinterior that the present chancel has been undoubtedly addedto another and more ancient chancel, which occupied itsnatural position at the east end of the old Church. Thepresent reading desk stands in front of a massive pillar,which was evidently the foundation of what was once thechancel arch, the old chancel ending at the site of the. ST. BENEDICTS CHURCH, SCRIVELSBY. SCRIVELSBY CHURCH. I 25 present screen. Why this chancel was built, it is hardto understand, for the Church is already too large for thescanty population, and must always have been sufficient tohold the congregation of so small a parish, even when theChampion appeared with his full retinue of attendants. Inolden times, however, attendance at Church was not sovoluntary a business as it is now, and where all had toattend, room must needs have been found for all ; and so,after all, there might at one time have been some reason forenlarging the Church in this way. The Church is dedicatedto St. Benedict,* and parts of it are perhaps 500 years arches of the nave are early English, the chancel archand the Church itself Perpendicular, while the windows shewthree different styles. The oldest are the two windows in thechancel, which are late Perp
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