II.-FONT.

A Font of ftone, or if that cannot be had, of fome other very substantial material, large enough for immerfion, elevated on three steps at least going round the fame, with a fmall platform for the Prieft to ftand on at the Weft fide, fhould be placed oppofite the Weft door, between the North and South porches in the Nave, or at the Western extremity of the South aifle; but this arrangement was fometimes varied by placing it at the end of the Northern aisle, or in the Southern transept, and occafionally by having a separate Baptistery. There should be a confiderable vacant space left around the Font, which fhould always have a Cover.

III. NAVE AND ASCENT TO CHOIR.

About two-thirds of the distance between the great Western door and the Altar fhould be an afcent of three or four steps, rifing into the Western end of the Choir or Chancel. Formerly there were many more, as may be feen in most of the ancient Churches in Rome. This additional portion of the Church was thrown out Eastward by S. Ofmund and his fucceffors, from the oblong, fometimes apfidal hall in which the Anglo-Saxons worshipped, for the purpose of better accommodating the Choir and Minifters of the Altar. The Anglo-Saxon Churches were probably all Chancel, and no Nave, as now understood, exifted; for the Chorus Cantorum with the feats or ftalls for the Clergy, was fituate in the middle of this Chancel, verging Eastward, and was furrounded on three fides at least by the congregation. Edmer, quoted by Gervafe of Canterbury (Twyfden, 1292), defcribes an Anglo-Saxon Choir thus: "From the Altar the Choir for the pfalmfingers was extended into the hall of the Church, decently constructed fo as to be fecluded from the preffure of the crowd."

The centre of the Nave and the alleys in the aifles ought to have an unincumbered breadth fufficient to allow four perfons at the leaft, duly vefted, to walk abreast in Proceffions; and the open alley up the Nave fhould be ftill wider than the others for the larger Proceffions, fuch as weddings or funerals, entering by the Western door.

Before the entrance to the Chancel or screen a large vacant space should be left unincumbered without feats or defks, to allow for the mustering of Proceffions, fuch as that at the giving out of the Bidding Prayer, or at the Stations before the great Cross at the East end of the Nave.

IV. SITUATION OF ALTAR.

The principal Altar (hereafter to be defcribed) fhould be placed at the Eaftern end of the Church beyond the Prefbytery, but not immediately