166: _Vestry_, so called because it is the place where the vestments of the priests and their assistants are kept. It is also called the _sacristy_, because the _sacred_ vessels and other furniture for use at the altar are kept there. The keeper of the vestry is properly called the _sacristan_. This word has now degenerated to _sexton_. 167: Some of the subterranean and other small chambers in churches, supposed to be chantries or mortuary chapels, have probably been used as vestries. The following is extracted from Neal and Webb's edition of _Durandus_:--"On eache side of this chancelle peradventure (for so fitteth it beste) should stand a turret; as it were for two ears, and in these the belles to be hanged, to calle the people to service, by daie and by night. Undre one of these turrets is there commonly a vaulte, whose doore openeth into the quiere, and in this are laid up the hallowed vesselles, and ornamentes, and other utensils of the churche. We call it a vestrie."--_Fardle of Facions_. Printed 1555. 168: Early examples of these chests for containing the parish records may be found in most old churches. Frequently they are of very rude design, and the box is formed of a single block of wood strongly bound with iron hoops. Sometimes, however, they are richly carved, as in the churches of Clymping, Sussex; Luton, Bedfordshire; and Faversham, Kent. The proper place for the parish chest is the vestry, but it is not unfrequently to be found in some other part of the church. We often meet with several large chests of common deal in various parts of the church containing useless papers and other rubbish. The sooner these are swept away the better. 169: See pages 85 and 86 for a description of some of these vestments. 170: It is _always lawful_, and almost always desirable, to hold "vestry" meetings in some hall or room in the parish, and _not in the church vestry_. 171: Eph. ii. 20. 172: Pugin's _True Principles of Architecture_. 173: _Durandus._ 174: 1 Pet. ii. 5. 175: Col. iii. 14. 176: John x. 9. 177: Jer. xxii. 18. 178: Most persons know--at least from engravings--the famous "Apprentice Column" in Roslin Chapel. That was perhaps the first church pillar that ever was wreathed with flowers, and those stone flowers are as fresh and beautiful now as when they were carved five hundred years ago. 179: This old custom of copying in stone or marble the surrounding objects of nature has been imitated on the capitals of pillars in the church of St. Mary, Devon, which has recently been so beautifully restored in memory of the late Bishop of Exeter. 180: Acts xiv. 13. Virgil, _Æneid_, i. 417; ii. 249. 181: 1 Cor. xv. 42. 182: Isa. lx. 13. 183: Mark xiv. 4. 184: This word, formerly spelt _clear story_, plainly expresses its own meaning--a clear or separate story or flight of windows. They are placed between the roof and the nave arches of a church.