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having suffered more than any of the places hitherto men-
tioned. Every house and cottage sustained more or less
injury, some of the buildings having been rendered tempo-
rarily uninhabitable.
Fig. 5.—Shattered Cottage at Peldon.
At Peldon Church the substantial square stone tower (at the
west end of the church) had lost portions of the battlements,
the masonry falling partly into the churchyard, and partly
crashing through the roof into the interior. The tower (said
to be Norman) was rent on its western face almost vertically
from top to bottom, the crack being in some places about half
an inch wide. The nave and chancel walls were also much
cracked, the latter part of the building only about 40 years
old ; the wall on different sides of a crack was in some cases
" sheared " as much as half an inch to one inch. The vestry
chimney was thrown down, falling towards the N. Mr.
Symons states that " the glass from a standard lamp was
thrown in a line E.S.E. to W.N.W." This observer remarks,
with respect to the Rectory, that "large, well-built stacks,