Internally the church is very high and spacious; is decorated artistically in many places; and a sense of mingled solemnity and immensity comes over you on entering it.  The roof is a tremendous affair; it is open, and supported by eleven huge Gothic-fashioned principals, each of which cost 100 pounds, and it is panelled above with stained timber.  But we don’t care very much for the roof.  No doubt it is fine; but the whole of the wood work seems too, heavy and much too dark.  There is a cimmerian massiveness about it; and on a dull day it looks quite bewildering.  If it were stained in a lighter colour its proportions would come out better, and much of that gigantic gloom which now shadows it would be removed.  There are canopied stands for two and twenty statues towards the base of the principals; but the whole of them, except about five, are empty.  Saints, &c., will be looked after for these stands when money is more abundant, and when more essential work has been executed.  What seems to be proximately wanted in the church is a good sanctuary—­ something in keeping with the general design of the building and really worthy of the place.  It is intended, we believe, to have a magnificent sanctuary; but a proper design for one can’t be exactly hit on; when it is, the past liberality of the congregation is a sufficient guarantee that the needful article—­money—­will be soon forthcoming.  Notwithstanding the greatness of the church, it will not seat as many as some smaller places of worship.  This is accounted for through its having no galleries.  There is a small elevation in the shape of a gallery at the western end, which is seldom used; but the sides of the church are open, the windows running along them rendering this necessary.  The church will comfortably seat about 1,000 persons; 1,700 have been seen in it; but there had to be much crushing, and all the aisles, &c., had to be filled with standing people to admit such a number.  The seats are all well made and all open.

On a Sunday masses are said at eight, nine, ten, and eleven, and there is an afternoon service at three.  The aggregate average attendance on a Sunday is about 3,000.  There are three confessionals in the church, towards the south-eastern-corner; they stand out like small square boxes, and although made for everybody seem specially adapted for thin and Cassius-like people.  Falstaff’s theory was—­ more flesh more frailty.  If this be so, then, there are either very few “great” sinners at St. Walburge’s or the large ones confess somewhere else.  The worshippers at this church are, in nine cases out of ten, working people.  The better class of people sit at the higher end of the central benches; and if one had never seen them there no difficulty would be experienced in finding out their seats.  You may always ascertain the character of worshippers by what they sit upon.  Working-class people rest upon bare boards; middle-class individuals develop the cushion scheme to a moderate pitch; the upper