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CHAMBERED CHURCH PORCHES. chambers," but they exist in places where there would be ample accommodation for the residence of the clergy, e.g., in cathedral and monastic churches, and in places like Bridport, where from time immemorial there has been a resident rector. Sometimes they are described as schoolrooms," but their use for this purpose belongs only to times subsequent to the Reformation. They have been called also "lepers' galleries," where persons, suffering from loathsome diseases could join in the divine offices without offending the congregation. But this is not likely to have been their purpose, because they do not usually have hagioscopes from which the performance of mass could be seen, and the approach to them is always by a stair communicating with the interior of the church, so that a leper or other sufferer would first have to enter the sacred building. Moreover, at St. Cross there is a leper's gallery besides a chambered porch. They have been called muniment rooms, vestries, and libraries, chiefly because these are some of the local uses to which they have been applied in modern times. Clearly the chambered porch was the apartment allotted to the sacrist and guardian of the church, a very necessary official wherever there were valuable relics and other articles to be protected. His duties would also include the care of the lights and the ringing of the bells at the appointed hours. This purpose is confirmed by the records at Southwell, which require the sacrist "to lie within the church," and be ready to ring the bells, &c. That schools were often held in porches and in the church itself is clear from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, III. ii., but not necessarily in the chamber over the porch. Many of these chambers |