The contract with Locke and Nesham was for £3380, exclusive of the flooring, the wood-work, and other fittings of the interior. For this £1200 was set aside, but the sum was much exceeded, and there were many offerings from private friends. The altar of cedar-wood was the gift of Robert Williams, Esq.; the altar plate was given by Mrs. Heathcote; the rails by the architect; the font by the Rev. William Butler and Emma his wife, and the clergy and sisters of Wantage. Mr. Butler was then vicar of Wantage, later canon of Worcester and dean of Lincoln. The present cedar credence table was made long after Mr. Keble’s death, the original one was walnut, matching the chancel fittings. This was proposed as the inscription on the base of the font, to be entirely hidden— Ecclesiæ Parochiali Sanctorum Omnium In agro Hursleiense Hunc Fontem, Lavacrum Regenerationis, In honorem D. N. J. C. Gratis animis D.D.D. Presbyteri, Diacones, Lectores, Sorores Ecclesiæ SS. Petri et Pauli Indigna familia Apud Wantagium Whether the whole was actually cut out on the under side of the granite step must be uncertain. The steps of the sanctuary have in encaustic tiles these texts. On the lowest: Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have a right to the Tree of Life, and enter through the gates into the city. On the step on which the rails stand: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. On the next: Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. And on the highest: Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty, they shall behold the land that is very far off. The lectern was the offering of the friend of his youth, the Rev. Charles Dyson, Rector of Dogmersfield, copied from that at Corpus Christi College, where they first met. The corbels were carefully chosen: those by the chancel arch are heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, as exponents of the inner mysteries; those by the east window are St. Athanasius and St. Augustine as champions of the faith. On the corbels of the north porch, looking towards the hills of Winchester, are Bishops Andrewes and Ken on the outside; on the inside, Wykeham and Waynflete. On the south porch, St. Augustine of Canterbury, and the Empress Helena over the door; on the outside, Bishop Sumner and Queen Victoria to mark the date of building. “How would you like to have the book boards of the seats?” wrote the architect; “perhaps it would suggest the idea of a prayer desk if they were made to slope as the chancel stalls?”