The chancel has a calm, goodly look; is, in fact, the best part of the building, architecturally speaking.  At the base, there is an archway of tablets, upon which nobody ever bestows very close attention; above, there are three staple-shaped windows; and surmounting all, there is a round recessed light, which can only be seen through by people who sit in the gallery.  On the left side of the chancel, there are two windows.  There is no stained glass in the chancel.  If the windows were adorned with it, and the walls more cheerfully painted, a very beautiful effect would be produced.  Five different kinds of carpetting, all very well worn, deck the floor of the chancel.  Within the communion rails, there is a rich carpet, in needlework, made by some of the members of the congregation, At each side there is as antique chair, being part of the furniture in the vestry which adjoins, and which was given by the Rev. H. R. Smith.  It consists altogether of ten pieces—­including chairs, bookcase, looking-glass, dressing-table, chest, &c., and is about 200 years old.  The only stained windows in the building are in the west transept.  They are four in number; two being of the merely ornamental type, whilst the remainder are of the memorial order.  At the bottom of one of them there are these words—­“In memory of Mary Smith, born 1779, died 1845.  Erected by Henry Robert Smith.”  At the base of the other window there is this inscription:- “In memory of John Smith, born 1773, died 1849.  Erected by the church, 1855.”  The deceased persons referred to were the parents of the Rev. H. R. Smith, who, as already said, was a former incumbent of the church.  The ends of the transept are very dim, and sometimes you can hardy tell who is sitting in them.

St. Mary’s will accommodate 1,450 persons.  The pews on the ground floor, excepting a few free ones at the entrance and at the top of the church, are all of the “closed” kind—­have doors to them.  When the Church was renovated the pews were cut down about eight inches, were remodelled, and thoroughly cleaned.  Previously they were painted, and had a gummy, sticky influence rearwards upon peoples clothes.  One or two bits of shawl fringe, &c., drawn off by the old gluey paint still remain at the back of some of the seats (notwithstanding the chemical cleansing they got), reminding one of the saying of friend Billings, that “A thing well stuck iz stuck for ever.”  The gas burners hang far down in pendant clusters from the ceiling, and with their glass reflectors, which would cast off a better light if cleaner, have a lamp-like effect, putting one in mind, when lighted, of some Eastern mosque.  The font is a prettily shaped article, is made of fossil marble, and was given by the Rev. Canon Parr and the wardens of the Parish Church, in which building it once stood.  It rests upon a platform of ornamental tiles bordered with stone, and looks well.  Above it is a carved wooden canopy surmounted by a dove.  The canopy is raised by a descending ball of equal weight.  When the ball falls the pigeon rises.  In ordinary life the ball rises when the pigeon falls; but this is not the case at St. Mary’s, although it amounts to the same thing in the end, for after the pigeon has ascended three feet the ball descends upon its back and settles the question.