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—as sense, denoting a particular section of them etc. It also signifies the building appropriated to Christian worship. Early churches in Britain were made of wood, and in the 6th century of stone. Churches are cla ed as cathedral, collegiate, conventual or minster, abbey or priory, and parochial. Churches have been used for all sorts of purposes, religious and otherwise. An old church in Bru els was for many years used as the General Post Office, and the General Post Office in London was built on the site of the old church of St. Martin's. The tower of St. Botolph’s Church at Boston had been used as a lighthouse, being visible acro the waters of the Wash for 40 miles, and the same was the case with that of St. Burgan, near the Land’s End, and of Monken Hadley, near Barnet. The Boston Church is an 'almanac* in stone; it has 60 steps to the chancel, 24 steps to the library, 7 doors, 52 windows, 12 pillars, 365 steps to the tower, which is 290 ft. high. The St. Burgan tower is 519 ft. above the sea. The widest nave in this country is that of St. Michael’s, Coventry, which is 125 ft., York Minster is 104$ ft., and St. Paul’s is 102 ft. At Reepham, in Norfolk, and at St. Andrews, in Fife, there are three churches in one churchyard, the three at St. Andrews being the Cathedral, the old chapel of St. Regulus, and the church of St. Leonard’s Priory. All three are in ruins. (For the size of Church Livings, see PARISH.)