Mouldings of a pattern one sees about common fireplaces ran everywhere with praiseworthy impartiality.

But the great principle of the ornamental work throughout was a principle only too prevalent at the date when this particular church was last "done up." It was imitations of things not really there, and which would have been quite out of place if they had been there.

For instance, pillars and looped-up curtains painted on flat walls, with pretentious shadows, having no reference to the real direction of the light.

At the east end some Hebrew letters, executed as journeymen painters usually do execute them, had a less cheerful look than the highly-coloured lion and unicorn on the gallery in front.

The clerk's box, the reading-desk, and the pulpit, piled one above another, had a symmetrical effect, to which the umbrella-shaped sounding-board above gave a distant resemblance to a Chinese pagoda.