The chancel of this was so new that the dust of the stone still lay white on the midsummer grass beneath the carvings of the windows.

The houses were almost all built of oak frame-work filled with cob or plaster well whitewashed; though some had their lower stories of rubble-stone, with their windows and doors of well-moulded freestone.

There was much curious and inventive carving about most of them; and though some were old and much worn, there was the same look of deftness and trimness, and even beauty, about every detail in them which I noticed before in the field-work.

They were all roofed with oak shingles, mostly grown as grey as stone; but one was so newly built that its roof was yet pale and yellow.

This was a corner house, and the corner post of it had a carved niche wherein stood a gaily painted figure holding an anchor--St.Clement to wit, as the dweller in the house was a blacksmith.