Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . dship of Kinlet, of Lencote, and of Walton,and his brother Roger joins with him 111 acquitting the saidland from all royal service. The Church of Kinlet is a plain cruciform building ofgreat solidity. It was so much modernized about the middleof the last century that it is not easy to form an opinion asto the date of its erection. The whole now consists of anave with a range of four clerestory windows on each side,two side aisles, of which the windows, if ever they existed,are now closed. A chancel of extent little inf
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . dship of Kinlet, of Lencote, and of Walton,and his brother Roger joins with him 111 acquitting the saidland from all royal service. The Church of Kinlet is a plain cruciform building ofgreat solidity. It was so much modernized about the middleof the last century that it is not easy to form an opinion asto the date of its erection. The whole now consists of anave with a range of four clerestory windows on each side,two side aisles, of which the windows, if ever they existed,are now closed. A chancel of extent little inferior to thebody, but erected probably in the middle of 14th century,with two transepts. The length of the body is 05 ft. 4 of nave and aisles, 39 ft. jo in. The tower is squareand rather low, with high battlements. There is a spacious porch, in which are the remains of sometiles, on one of which are the arms of France and Englandquarterly ; on another those of Berkeley, and on a third are 1 Smart MS. Hurl. MS. 7^ AV/yfs Wood joins Meaton.— F. C. 15. NOTES ON KINLET. 105 chevrons, probably for de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Thedoor under this porch is slightly pointed, but the middle , filled up by an X moulding, and is probably ancient. Inthe outer wall of the north (south?) transept are the remainsof three arches ; the middle one, which has evidently beenan old entrance into part of the church, and of which thespan is increased in a progressive ratio—the first being halfthe size of the second and the second of the third—at thepurpose of these I cannot guess. Very many of our oldchurches are well known to have on the south side of thealtar a set of three stone seats, each progressively higherthan the other. These at Kinlet may have been designed toanswer the same end, whatever that might be, concerningwhich the learned, I believe, are not agreed. Near thesetrances on the inside is a holy water stoup ; another is inthe opposite transept, no
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