To resume Dr. Gibson's account:--"The new building is plain even to meanness; but being now well screened by trees and flourishing evergreens--and I may state that evergreens grow here with a luxuriance that I have not seen elsewhere--it is not so offensive to the eye as formerly. The interior has been greatly beautified by improvements made in 1857, the cost being defrayed by subscription. The addition of a reading desk, pulpit, reredos and altar rail in handsomely carved oak, the painting of what used to be an unsightly expanse of white ceiling, in imitation of oak panelling, and the spare but tasteful introduction of tinted glass into the windows, have made the inside as handsome as it is likely to be whilst the pews are allowed to remain. The parish register dates back to 1594. In the vestry is stored a library, chiefly of works in divinity, sermons, etc., which have been purchased from time to time with the interest of different sums left by the Fleming family, commencing with £5 under the will of Roger Fleming of Coniston, dated February, 1699. In the vestibule of the southern entrance to the church is kept one of those curious old chests, made from a solid block of oak, like that containing the muniments of the Grammar School at Hawkshead. The only contents of this are a number of slips of paper, each bearing the almost illegible affidavit of two women that the corpse of each person interred was shrouded in cloth only made of woollen material. These worn and fragile evidences of a curious old protective law--for I infer it could only be enacted to support the landed interest--serve, if they do nothing else, to explain the line in Pope which has puzzled many modern readers-- Odious!--in woollen!--'twould a saint provoke. The following is a copy of one of the most legible of these fugitive records:-- Lancr. P.ociall Cappell de Coniston. We Jennet Dickson wife of Thomas Dickson and Isabell Fleming widow--doe severally make oath that the Corps of Isabel Dickson widow was buryed March y^e 15^{th} An^o Dmj 1692. And was not putt in, wrapt or wound up in any Shirt, Shift, Sheet or Shroud, Made or mingled w^{th} fflax, Hemp, Hair, Gold or Silver, etc: nor in any coffin lined or faced w^{th} cloath etc: nor in any other material but sheeps wooll onely According to Act of Parlyment. In Testimony whereof we y^e s^d Jennet Dickson and Isabel Fleming have hereunto putt our Hands and Seales the 15^{th} day of March, An^o Dmj 1692. Cap^t et Jur^t coram me Jennet Dickson Henri Mattinson Cur^t her x m^k de Torver decimo nono Isabel Fleming die Martij Anno dom 1693 her x m^k So far Dr. Gibson on the "new" church, now the "old" church, and already of the past.