The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-21 00:00:00

POWER OF A RECTOR
_AS TO MONUMENTS IN

A- CHANCEL

Dr. Tristram. the Commissary-General of Canterbury
has givin imidgment in the Charthame Faculty ease—one of
considerable importance. aa defining the power of a rector
as to erections in the chancel of his church. Mr. Moody
had applied to the Court to grant a faculty authorising
him to erect on the east wall of the chancel of the parish
church of Uhartham, in Kent, a monument of a partleuDr
design, to the memory of his father, the late Rev. Henry
Riddell Moody., who was for more
.than 50 years rector of
the parish. The rector and the parishioners were in favour
of a monument to the late rector being erected, but the
rector and parishioners were also equally unanimous in
objecting to the monument being erected in the chancel.
It seems that Mr. Moody, although he is instructor in
decorative art and chief decorator in South Kensington
Museums, wished the monument to he in the " Debased
Pagan style of architecture. The chancel na beautiful
Gothic structure, and there is already in it a monument of
the " Debased Pagan style to a former rector, Mr.
Bungay, erected in 1506 The rector considers this ilungay
monument a disfigurement of the church, awl a couple of
them would be unbearably ugly. Even Mr. Moody
admitted that architects might consider the proposed
monument ugly, and some years ago he induced his father,
without the authority of a faculty, to remove a monument
to a former rector and of the same style as the one he now
proposed to erect, from the chancel, as tieing unsuited to
a Gothic building. But at that time. Mr. Moody apolo-
getically olsierves, he was " afflicted with the Gothic
mania.' The court held that the grounds assigned by the
rector for hie dissent were not without reason, and while
regretting that the wishes of the late rectr expressed on
his ileatli•beil could not be carried out, refused to grant
the faculty asked for, and ordered Mr. Moody to pay the
costs.

The Great Durnford Estate, near Salisbury, comprising
746 acres, is to be sold by auction in May next.
Sir Alfred Slade, Bart., on Wednesday took the
oaths as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and West-
minster.
. . . .

Several milk dealers in Sheldon Mallet have been lined
for selling milk a:illiterates' with water and skim milk.

.—Tite Her. Mr. BEECIII6II Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher mak. this reply to • query as to whether
it is wicked to dance "It is wicked when it is wicked,
and not wicked when it is not wicked. In itself it has nu
more moral character than walking, wrestling, or rowing.
Bad company, untimely hours, evil dances, may make the
exercise evil :good company, wholesome hours, and home
influences, may make it a very peat benvtit -
QUEENSLAND Eitutturiox.—The Ship Derbyshire 1196
tons register, Messrs. Taylor, Betliell. and Roberts, 110
Fenchurch Street, London, sailed from Graveland cm the
kd imt., bound for Hri,bane, Queensland ; Captain,
Causebruilt Surgeon-Sulierintendent, Dr. J. F. Watson'
Matron, Miss Davideon. The Derbyshire is the E.Grd
vessel that has sailed under the Land Order System of
Emigration and under the immediate direction of the
Queensland Government Office, :M., Charing Cram, London.
Otis carries 429 scuds, divided into assisted, remittance. and
free and consisting of f 32 members of faxadiaa,
IX task and 70 Angie I amain