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Page 183:-
Of this 'Christopher wood' we can learn nothing; but the 'true ownership' has passed into other hands, and this porch is used, as it has long been, as the vault of an ancient Westmorland family residing in the neighbourhood.

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SOUTHERN ENTRANCE.

The Piscina (of which an illusttration is given in a subsequent page) - in the niche of one of the pillars of the south side of the choir - was till lately occupied by
A - BOX - FOR - THE - POORE
- now placed by the Font. Seldom it is that this Box is put to its proper purpose: but Canning - then the Premier - looking through the Church, as he was on his way for the last time towards Storrs Hall, was observed to drop into it an offering, which proved to be a guinea.
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