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chancel are a chapel and vestry. The tower and spire, at the west end, were built by a village mason in 1782. A long time may be spent in investigating the varied features of the. building, in which Transitional, Decorated, and fifteenth century work will be found; also its curious monuments; and there is a good peal of musical bells. All this (bells excepted) was imbedded in whitewash and other incrustations till recently, when the parishioners restored the nave and aisles under the able direction of Mr. Butterfield, and the Warwick trustees commenced a similar work in the chancel, which they have unhappily left very incomplete. A painted window at the east end has been recently inserted, at the cost of Mr. Perrins, of Worcester.

And now for a few historical odds and ends. Humphrey Pakington, John Morris, and Richard Terrett, all of Chaddesley, were among the gentry who in 1630-2 were fined by Charles I for not accepting the order of knighthood. Lady Mary Yate, (a daughter of the house of Pakington, and who is commemorated on a monument in the church as having died here in 1696, at the age of eighty-six) was prohibited by order of the Government in 1680 from leaving England, which she desired to do for the restoration of her health, the prohibition arising from the extreme jealousy then prevailing against Papists. It was feared the poor old lady (then seventy years of age) would comfort the Pope in his conspiracies against England ! At length she was permitted to depart by special leave of the Secretary of State, and only on this condition was the said dame to "imbarque with her trunkes of apparel and other necessaries not prohibited at any porte of this kingdom, and from thence to pass beyond the seas, provided that she depart this kingdom within fourteen dayes." Lady Mary was a staunch Catholic, and conveyed a large portion of her estate, some £600 a year, to Father Constable, in trust for the benefit of the clergy at St. Omer's, and to pray for her own and husband's souls, &c. She was lady of Chaddesley manor for sixty-five years, and her daughter,