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Gentleman's Magazine 1817 part 2 p.27
[antiqui]ty, have been dug from them; whether any Druid or British monuments, as temples, cromlechs, cairns, rocking stones, or any such remains, near the place.
Have any famous battles been fought in the neighbourhood: what traditions respecting them, and of the place in general.
Are there any collections of pictures or sculpture, or any museum of natural history, &c.; whether any portraits of eminent men, or other representations of ancient edifices or antiquities of any kind?
To learn if any of the parishioners, or their acquaintance, possess any coins, manuscripts, surveys, plans, or drawings; and to ask for any curious or intelligent enquirer into matters of this nature, from whom much information is often obtained.
In what diocese, deanery, or hundred, does the church stand; whether the living be rectory or vicarage, and what is its value; who the patron and incumbent; to whom the tithes appropriated or impropriated.
Whether any parochial library in the church or parsonage.
By whom the church founded, and to whom dedicated; when supposed to be erected, and of what materials built; to take the ichnography and measurements of the nave, ailes, chancels, chapels, &c.; to note whether it be ceiled or paved, what number of galleries, and what the general state of repair; to enquire whether any vaults peculiar to ancient families, and to examine all monuments, tombs, brasses, &c. in the church or church-yard; to describe or draw the several stalls, piscinae, bells, font, &c. with their devices, ornaments, armorial bearings, inscriptions, dates, dimensions, &c.; as also to make memoranda from pictures, painted glass, sculptures of every kind.
Whether there are any chantries, altars, shrines, images, roods, legends, relics, charities, or benefactions; to note the commencement of the register, and any curious remarks that may be made therein, with the births, marriages, or burials of eminent persons.
To examine the church chests, in which mutilated remains of monumental inscriptions, &c. are sometimes deposited.
To date the time of your survey and observations.
W.A.
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