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18 September 2005 SRW

Inside the west porch

Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK

From the Wiltshire County Council website:
"In 1858, the Reverend FE Huchinson became vicar: and he and his wife greatly improved conditions for the villagers, improved the church,
built schools and school-houses and a new vicarage. It should be said that in return they expected respect and a strict observance of rules.

"In the church, the musicians' gallery was removed, and the roof of the Beggars' Porch -- the west porch -- was lowered.
Architecturally, the latter was a great crime in a porch where there were ancient stone seats on which the poor sat after a service to receive charity."

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