chapel south · ashlar · drip-stone · a candle in a niche
the chapel was given a deeper overhang than its size strictly needed. the masons who cut the drip-stone gave it a clean chamfer at forty-five degrees so the water would not bend back to the wall under the wind. the wall is six hundred years dry where the overhang protects it. immediately below the overhang's end, the same wall is veined with the green and grey of every shower the chapel has ever known.
the chapel floor ends a foot inside the overhang's line of fall. the stone bench against the south wall, which no one sits on, is therefore always dry. on saint's days small candles in the votive niche have been blown out by gusts that found their way under the overhang anyway; the wind, like everything else, prefers the easier route until it doesn't.
pigeons do not nest here, by some long agreement between them and the verger. a robin, twice in living memory, has nested in the niche when no candle was burning. the verger noticed both times and left the candles unlit for the season. the workshop, by contrast, the verger ignores; the jackdaws there have their own arrangements.
field-note · chapel the bell rung an hour before vespers loosens a little fine dust from inside the overhang. on a still afternoon you can see it falling, a slow, pale rain that never reaches the ground.
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