are the springers for a stone roof. The pillars of the nave have a very wide circular base, and in the Early English chancel are sedilia with aumbries and piscina, and also an arched recess which may have been used for an Easter sepulchre. The tall red sandstone font is singularly fine, both bowl and pedestal being richly carved with figures under canopies.
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Leverton Windmill.
The practice of putting inscriptions into rhyme is exemplified in the windows of these churches.
BENINGTON Benington has a Latin couplet:—
Ad loca Stellata
Duc me Katherina beata
Leverton one in Norman French:—
Pour l'amour de Jhesu Christ
Priez par luy q moy fatre fist.
(Pray for him who caused me to be made.)
A lane here leads eastwards to Benington-Sea-End, which is close on the Roman bank. And, as the main road to Boston