transforming into cleanness and brightness. The
pews are high, and on the average they will hold six
persons each. Seven might get into them on a pinch;
but if the number were much extended beyond that point,
either abraison or blue places through violent pressure
would be the consequence. Two or three pews at
the top end will hold twelve each; but that apostolic
number is not very often observed in them. The
price of a single sitting in the middle aisle is 10s.
per annum; the cost of a side seat is equal to three
civil half-crowns. The long side seats are free;
so are the galleries, excepting that portion of them
in front of the organ. Often the church is not
much more than half filled on a Sunday; but it is
said that many sittings, calculated to accommodate
nearly a full congregation, are let. Viewed from
the copperhead standpoint this is right; but taking
a higher ground it would be more satisfactory if even
fewer pews were let and more folk attended. The
church is not well arranged for people occupying side
seats. In looking ahead the pillars of the nave
constantly intercept their vision if they care about
seeing who is reading or preaching. Wherever
the pulpit were put it would blush unseen, so far as
many are concerned. At present it is fixed on
the south-eastern side, and only about one-fourth
of those seated under the galleries can see either
it or the preacher. Some of them at times complain
considerably of sequestration; others feel it a little
occasionally; a few think it a rather snug thing to
be out of sight. A large five-light stained
glass window occupies the chancel end; but there is
nothing very entrancing in its appearance. The
greater portion of it has a bright, amber-coloured,
monotonous flashiness about it, which flares the eyes
if gazed at long, and makes other things, if looked
at directly afterwards, yellow-hued; and it is surmounted
with a number of minor designs, reminding one of the
big oddities in a mammoth keleidoscope. But the
congregation have got used to the window, and will
neither break it nor permit others to do so. Six
spaces for tablet inscriptions occupy the base of the
window. Two of them are blank; two have a great
mass of letters packed into them; and two are but
moderately filled in with words. At a distance
nobody can see what is said upon them. It is reported
that they contain the Decalogue and the Apostles’
Creed; and if this be so, the incumbent, the curate,
and the clerk must have been the parties for whose
delight they were put up, for they are the nearest
to, and can consequently best read, them. There
are the full compliment of sacred enclosures and resting
places at the higher end of the church—a
chair for the ease of the incumbent or curate; a desk
for the prayer reader; a box for the clerk; a lectern
for the lesson reader; and a stout pulpit for the
preacher.