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parish church of Garway, and it shall be the chief subject 

 of my concluding article on Garway. 



On the south of the chancel of S. Michael's Church 

 stands the Templars' chapel (28 feet long by 13 feet 

 9 inches). It has no dedication ; but yet it bears evi- 

 dence of consecration, viz. on a special stone, 17 inches by 

 1 8 inches, near the jamb of the west entrance of the chapel, is 

 to be seen an incised cross potent. 1 Still standing outside 

 and looking up at the west gable, one sees a "lamb 

 passant," carrying a banner charged with a cross. This is 

 the well-known symbol of " The Lamb of God." (On a seal 

 of the Templars attached to a charter of A.D. 1304, now in 

 the British Museum, " The Lamb of God " appears with the 

 motto, Testis sum Agni.) Lower down is a square-headed 

 window ; and still lower down is the west entrance with 

 slightly pointed head. Notice the right and left corners of 

 this head : they are formed of different shaped stones. 

 The left corner-stone has a curious design incised on it : 

 cross patriarchal and pastoral staff crossing 

 (diagonal dexter and sinister) each other at >£/ *^»-> 

 the middle, with an eight-pointed star above ^^^>^ 

 and a crescent below. This design repre- 

 sents briefly the early history of the Order : the cross 

 patriarchal refers to the period when the Templars acknow- 

 ledged the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Jerusalem ; the 

 pastoral staff refers to the office of the Grand Master, who 

 was a bishop'- 2 to the Templars; the eight-pointed star 

 represents the baptized and confirmed Christians ; the 

 crescent, 3 the Saracens. 



alienated from the Church since the suppression of the Hospitallers by the Act of 

 the 32 Henry vm. cap. 24 (1540). 



1 This cross potent consists of four tau (T) crosses; it is a cross ■ 



Uy worn by Eastern Christian children as a charm. On B 'C XC_ 



of the ancient cathedral of Constantinople (now "TTj u 

 a Mo lem mosque), this cross still appears after centuries of dese- 

 cration. 



2 On tin- corbels terminating the outer dripstone of the east window of the 



chapel are t>> be seen, on the left a la-ad wearing a mitre, i'ii the right a mask 01 



dead man's head. This, no doubt, was to remind the Templars of the ('.rami 



! in death. 



8 The crescent was the old symbol of C01 1 inople; the Turks assumed it 



on the capture of Constantinople. It is nol a Moslem emblem, but the emblem 



