The figure suggests that the official tally of 166 wounded in all Lebanon may be a serious underestimate. One of Mr Maqda's bodyguards was also reported to have been wounded in the missile attack - the only militia man reported to have been injured during the day. Dr Ghassan Hammoud, the director and owner of the hospital, gave the Independent a set of hospital records which show that in the past six days, his doctors have tended 88 wounded civilians. Israel did not give precise figures.The sixth day of Israel`s operation, which it says is intended to force the Lebanese government to disarm the Hizbollah, opened before dawn when two helicopters flew over the Ein el Helweh camp and fired two missiles at the house of Mounir Maqda, a Palestinian official who broke with the PLO leader because he disagreed with the Oslo accord between the PLO and Israel.Mr Maqda was not hurt, but his three-year-old son Mazen was reported to be badly injured and a married couple were gravely wounded when one of the missiles hit their neighbouring house.Osama and Samia Osman were taken to the Hammoud Hospital in Sidon where they were yesterday in critical condition with shrapnel wounds to the head and upper body. Their deaths bring to 25 the number of civilians cut down in the Israeli offensive, of whom at least 14 are women and children, the youngest a month old. In southern Lebanon the Hizbollah fired another 20 Katyusha rockets back at Israel, wounding several civilians. In its attack on what it claims to be Lebanese Hizbollah targets, Israel yesterday bombed a Palestinian refugee camp at Ein el Helweh and killed two more civilians - a woman who died in an air raid near Baalbek and a two year old girl decapitated by an Israeli missile fired from a helicopter over Beirut.

Contributions would help to complete the retreat soon and set up a trust through which Dode will be safe long after Mr Chapman goes to meet his Bronze Age ancestors For details, call 01622 734205. It will open to people of all creeds, or of no creed, and is intended to allow people to find solace in this ancient setting, no more than four miles from the roaring A2; I'll have to check the exact distance of this gap between Norman Kent and superstore Britain on OS Pathfinder 1193 Chatham.n The restoration of Dode church and the design and construction of the retreat is costing Douglas Chapman dear He is not a wealthy man. From a distance, and even close up, it promises to look like a local timber-framed agricultural outhouse, so will fit quietly into its romantic setting. From a strictly architectural point of view, it is a reminder of how all great or moving architecture is connected, is pretty much one and the same thing, despite local styles, materials and changes in technology. If the proportions are harmonious and the light that plays on them delightful, a building is well on its way to being architecture and tracing its roots back to the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia.Douglas Chapman has been granted permission to build a small retreat house in a loose-fit 15th-century style next to the church. I find that odd, especially when congregations sing "All things bright and beautiful" and when the sheepdog would have been one of the most important members of the parish here on the Downs."This harmony with nature and with an ancient way of life (and an ancient God or gods) is what makes the experience of Dode so special.

The church is one of those rare buildings in one of those rare settings that connects time present with time past along one seamless thread. "In the days before the Black Death, the church would have been alive with animals as well as people. People have got rather prissy these days; in many country churches, dogs are turned away. My dog curled up into a relaxed ball on the chancel straw and fell asleep at once.Such canine contentment appeals to Chapman. Anyone with any sensitivity walking through its door (there is no porch; this really is a simple ecclesiastical building, untouched by Goths medieval or Victorian) will instantly feel at peace. The great plague killed between a third and a quarter of the population of Europe and wiped Dode from the map.

For centuries, the church, built in the reign of William Rufus, lay empty, its stones raided to help build a medieval church nearby and its tumbling walls little more than a windbreak for sheep.At the turn of this century, the ruin was bought by a local archaeologist, who restored its walls and crafted a new roof in timber and tiles. Originally, nave and chancel would have been thatched in straw. The archaeologist died and the church was abandoned once more, although nominally in the hands of the Catholic church. Because Dode church was closed in 1349, it was never ceded to the Church of England at the time of the Reformation Nor had it been deconsecrated. By 1992, it had been vandalised, but, in principle at least, Dode was still a Catholic parish church, an architectural recusant in an age of motorways and superstores.Douglas Chapman, a chartered surveyor who works at Canterbury Cathedral, bought the church from the local Catholic diocese four years ago.

He paid pounds 67,000 for it, and it was generally assumed that he would convert this renegade Norman church into a weekend home. Instead, Mr Chapman set to work, bringing the church back to a state of original grace. So much so that when I came here on Easter Sunday, it was as if a time machine had whisked me back to the 11th century.The floor of the tiny church was strewn with straw and sweet-smelling herbs Tapestries hung at the round-headed windows Candles and wall-mounted braziers had been lit. Shafts of mottled sunlight pierced the thick Romanesque walls, illuminating the stone benches that surround and define the chancel. Here, if anywhere, one felt the presence of the God we were taught to worship. Not the God of revenge, nor the God who likes to see the rich man in his castle and the poor man at his gate, but the God who brooded here before the Normans.Not only has Douglas Chapman recreated a Norman church as it must have been when consecrated 900 years ago, but he has allowed us to discover a vision of England that predates Christianity itself.The straight up-and-down walls of Dode church rise from what proves to be an artificial mound in a meadow overlooked by Holly (or Holy) Hill.