The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
very plain piscina.* The Chancel arch is unfinished from
just above the spring of the arch, or was cut through at the
time the Chancel roof was altered and restored in the seven-
teenth century. The wall plate is carved with a running
pattern of foliage.
The " three largest Chancel windows are perfectly plain
and very ugly." There is a smaller cusped loop over the
Priest's door. The nave is lighted by seven windows, includ-
ing the Norman loop on the north side, above mentioned.
One of the others on the south is unusual in design, and of
the early decorated period, while at the west end is a " low
side window " in the corner between the nave and tower but-
tress, a remarkable position. The west door is perpendicular
gothic, and much decayed ;
the south door is rema^ka^'ty well
preserved and ornate ; it has a double series of enriched dec-
orations, including a demi-figure of a woman crowned, another
of a male figure holding in the left hand a book, the right
raised in benediction, and a little way below, I & M both
crowned. There are also representations of the sun and moon,
of winged hearts, shields with straps, crowns, foliage and
human faces. The figures may possibly be intended for the
Virgin and Christ ; the estoiles and crescents being symbols
of the sun and moon. The porch is of brick and overgrown
* " The Easter Sepulchre " was the receptacle in which, according to the ritual of
the Roman Catholic Church, the consecrated wafer or "host" was placed after it was
t aken from the altar, in Passion-tide, to be kept there in symbolic commemoration of
the burial of Our Lord in " the sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock," after His
crucifixion.
" Piscina. A niche on the south side of the altar in the same Churches,
containing a small basin and water-drain through which the priest empties the water
in which the chalice has been rinsed."— Oxford Glossary.