Window, with Ornaments on the Belfiy Window, with Sill ; and Shaft, with Section. Section.
Details of the Tower, Sompting, Sussex.
The whole of these peculiarities are not to be met with in any one building; and in some churches in which several of them are to be found they are associ- ated with other features, evidently original, which so clearly belong to the Norman style as to prove that these buildings are not of Saxon date, as at the churcli- cs of Daglingworth, (Gloucestershire, and Syston. Lin- colnshire. In other instances the lower parts of build-
ings consist exclusively of this peculiar kind of construction, and are surmounted by pure Norman work wliich has been raised upon it subsequently to the first erec- tion, as at the tower of Clapham Church, Bedfordshire, and Wood- stone, near Peterborough. This last class of buildings appears to
Barnack, Noithampton- shire.
Coihnmpton, Hants.
preponderate in favor of the Saxon theory ; for, although tlie Norman additions have been observed not to be re- markably early in that style, it is not very probable that so material a change woidd have been made in the ar- chitecture unless a consideraiile interval had elapsed be- tween the erection of the different parts. Some of the churches in whicli the peculiarities under consideration are found are clearly Norman (and not early in the style), but it may reasonably be supposed that in many parts of the country the Saxon style would have lin- gered for a considerable time after the Norman invasion, and would have continued to be employed (with an in- creasing admixture of Norman features) in buildings erected by native workmen.
The following is a tolerably complete list of exam- ples of the Saxon style :
Bedfordshire — ^Knotting ; Clapham, tower.
/lerk>shire — Wickham, lower: Cholsey, tower.
DuckiDfihauishiic — C.iverstield, tower; Tver; Lavendon, towt'r. nave, and chancel.
Cm/(/();(/f/('.v/,vc,'— St. Beliefs and St. Giles's, Cambridge.
Coriitrall^Tintnge].
Derbjinhire—Uepxitw, east end, and cryiit,
£»(/)-/!ni)( — Monks' Weaiinonih, tower; Jarrow, walls of church iind chnncel, and ruins near it.
i'sxen-— Borehimi, chinch : Colchester, Trinity Church, part of the tower, etc. ; Felstead, church ; Grea't Maplestead, north door.
GUiiicesternhire—'D!\{:]ij)<:\vnrih Chnich, except the tower; Deeihin-st, tower; Miserden, cliurch ; Streltoii, north door-way; Upleaden, chancel-arch.
11(1111 jiaUvrc — Boarhnnt; Corhampton ; Headbotnne Wor- lli.v; Hiutou Ampner; Little Sonibourn ; Kihneston ; Tichborne.
Hei t/ordnhireSt. Michael's, at St. Alhan's.
ivcw* — Dover, part of the ruined church in the Castle; Swnnsconibe, tower; Knotting.
l.ricc.stcrshire — Barrow on Soar; Bnrrow on Tnsrhy.
Liiii-nlnnhire — Aukboroush; Barton on the Huniber, St. Peter's, tower ; Branston ; Cabnrn ; Clee, tower; Hol- ton-le-Clav, tower and chMUCel-arrh ; Heapham : Lin- coln. St. Peter's at Qowt's ; St. Mary-le-V\'igford ; Nettle- ton ; Tlopsley, part of the west end ; Roihwell ; Srnrtho; Skellingihorpe; Skillington, part of the church; Spring- tliorpe; Stow, transepts; Swallow; Syston, lower; Wailh, tower and chancel-arrh ; Wiuterlon.
Middlencx — Kingsbury, part of church (now hidden by plas- terinir).
Xoifolk: — Norwich, St. Jnlien's; Becston St. Lawrence; Dunham Magna, rlinrch ; EIniham, ruins of bishop's palace; Howe; Newton, tower.
Northnmpttmtihire — Barnack, tower; Briirsloek, church; Brixworth, church ; Earl's Barton, tower; Green's Nor- ton, west end ; Paltishall ; Stow-uine-churches; Wit- terincrton, chancel.
SiiitlnniiherUtrid — Bolam, tower: Bywell, St. Andre'w; By well ; Corbridge; Hexham, crypt; Oviugham ; Whit- tintrliam.
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Oxfordshire — St. Michael's, Oxford, tower; Northleigh,
tower. Shropuhiie — Biurow, chancel - arch ; Church Strettou ;
Clee ; Stauton Liicey, nave and transept ; Stotte^idon. fiortwixetshiie — Cranmore, door-head ; Milbourne Port. ^■»/(i^^•— Barham, part of church ; Debenham; Claydon, part of church; Flixton ; Gosbeck, part of church; Heniingsione; Ilketshall ; I.eiston. Svrreii — Alhury ; Stoke d'Abernon, some portions. Si(s«i—Bishopstone, church ; Bosham, tower; St. Bo- toli)h, chancel - arch ; Burwash ; Soniptiug, tower; Worth ; Yaptnn. Wuriiickxhiie — Wooten Wawen, substructure of tower. WilMiiie — 'Nonh Burcnnibe. east end; Brytford, north and south doors; Breinhill, west end; Soiuerl'oid Keynes. Wurcentemhire—'Wyre Piddle, chancel-arch. Yorkshire — Bardsey ; Kirkdale, west end and chancel- arch; Kirk Homerton; Laughton-eu-le-Morthen, north door-way; Maltby; Ripou minster, crypt, called Wil- fred's Needle; York Cathedral, portion of crypt (Blox- hani) ; York, church of St. Mary, Bishop-hill junior. — ^\'alcott, Sacred A rchceolngy, s. v.
Say, Samukl H., an English dissenting divine, was born in 1675. He entcreci as a pupil in the academy of Kev. Thomas Kowe, London, about 1(392. Finishing his studies, he became ciia])lain to Tliomas Scott, Lv- minge, in Kent, in whose family he remained three years. Thence he removed to .A.n(iover, in Hampshire ; then to Yarmouth, in Norfolk; and soon after to Lowestoff, in Suffolk, where he labored for eighteen years. He was CO- pastor with Kev. Sanntel Baxter at Ipswich nine years, and succeeded Dr. Edmund Calamy in West- minster in 173-1. He died in 1743. He wrote, Sermon (Lond. 1730, 8vo): — Poems and Essays (ibid. 1745, 4to; 1749, 4to).
Saybrook Platform, a confession of faith and a compendium of rules for the government of the churches, adopted by an assembly of Congregational ministers and lay delegates convened by order of the Legislature of Connecticut, at Saybrook, Sept. 9, 1708. The synod consisted of sixteen members — twelve clerical and four lay — who represented the councils of Hartford, Fairlield, New London, and New Haven counties. As to doctrine, they adopted for recommendation to the General As- sembly of the colony the confession assented to by the elders and messengers assembled at Boston, May 12, 1680, which was the Savoy Confession with sotne small alterations, adding also the doctrinal parts of the West- minster Confession. In regard to Church government and discipline, they adojjtcd fifteen articles, the sub- stance of which was to provide (1) for one or more con- sociations in each county, with appellate and final juris- diction, to which particular churches might refer in dif- ficult cases; (2) for one or more associations in each county, consisting of the ministers, who should meet at least twice a year to consult on the common interest of the churches, and to i)erform certain other offices, such as the examination and recommendation of candidates for tlie ministry; (3) for a general association, to be composed of one or more delegates from each of the dis- trict associations, to meet once a year. Tiie proceed- ings of the synod were approved by the Assembly of the colony, Oct., 1708, and it ordained " that all the churches within this government that are or shall be thus united in doctrine, worship, and discipline be, and for the fut- ure shall be owned and acknowledged, established bv law; provided always that nothing herein shall be in- tended or construed to hinder or prevent any society that is or shall be allowed by the law* of this govern- ment, who soberly differ or dissent from the united churches hereby established, from exercising worship and discipline in their own way, according to their con- sciences." The decrees of tlie Saybrook Platform, both as regards doctrine and government, are not binding on the churches, but are only advisory in their character. See Truml)id], //isf. of Countcticut,\iA. i, ch. xix; Con- gregaiioiial Order; Bacon, Discourse at Norwich, Conn., June, 1859.