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QUERIES INTENDED TO ASSIST CORRESPONDENTS.
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head? Do any of the doors themselves appear ancient, and of what form is their iron-work?

11. Of what shape are the window-arches—especially those at the east and west ends of the Church?

12. Have they dripstones—Are the mullions and transoms of the windows plain or moulded—Is the tracery of their heads in straight or flowing lines?

13. Are there any niches for images—Or water-stoups externally?

14. Are there any covered gates or lich-gates to the church-yard—Or crosses in the church-yard or village?

15. What is the form and position of the tower—How many stages has it, and is it embattled—Has it a beacon-turret, or spire, and of what shape?

16. Is there any tree of remarkable size or age in the church-yard?

(Internally.)

17. Are the pillars cylindrical or angular—simple or clustered—Are their bases or capitals sculptured, and in what style?

18. Are the pier-arches semicircular or pointed—plain or moulded?

19. Are there any half-pillars (responds) attached to any of the walls?

20. Is there a triforium or gallery over the aisles—And, if so, what kind of openings has it?

21. Are there any windows in the upper walls of the nave or chancel—(Clearstory windows?)

22. Are the jambs and heads of the doorways and windows ornamented, and how? Have they any paintings on them?

23. Are the walls adorned with moulded strings, sculptured bands, or stone panellingnichescorbels, or brackets?

24. Are there any sedilia in the chancel—Have any of them had a perforation at the back, as if for confessional purposes?

25. Is there a piscina hidden or apparent—plain or ornamented—Has it a shelf—Is there any closet-like recess or aumbry in the walls, and where?

26. Is there any one window more lowly-silled than the other windows? and in what part of the Church is it?

27. Are there any small passages through the chancel walls, below the level of the windows, communicating either with the church-yard, or with an aisle, directly or diagonally? Hagioscopes or Confessionals?

28. Are there any chantry or rood-screens, or stair, or the remains thereof?

29. Are there any inscriptions or paintings on the walls, ceiling, or roof—Is the design diapered or heraldic?

30. If there be any ancient stained glass, state of what class are its subjects, and what the prevailing colour of the ground, and take tracings therefrom on thin paper.

31. Of what description is the ceiling—Of stone, and groined—or flat and of wood, or lath and plaster—If the internal part of the roof be visible, how is it supported—And are any of the timbers carved or painted?