_Totness Church._--In Totness Church, the N. angle of the chancel is cut
off in the lower part of the building, in order to allow an arched
passage from one side of the church to the other outside.
The upper part of the building is supported by a very strong buttress or
pier, leaving the diagonal passage between it and the internal wall. Can
any one tell whether this was done merely to afford a gangway for want
of room outside?
The graveyard has been recently enlarged in that direction, for all the
tombstones beyond the line of the chancel appear to be of late date. An
old woman informed me, with an air of solemn authenticity, that this
arched passage was reserved as a place of deposit for the bodies of
persons seized for debt, which lay there till they were redeemed.