XX REPORT. 
During the past year there have been seven meetings of the 
Council, with a. good average attendance of elected members. 
The first Expedition of the Society for the past year was held 
on Saturday, May 17th, to Southwell. 
The party left Derby at 10.30 a.m.,, travelling vid Nottingham. 
On reaching Southwell, the members proceeded to the Vicar’s 
Court, where they were received by the Rector of Southwell, 
the Rev. J. J. Trebeck. Luncheon was, by kind permission of 
the Bishop of Nottingham, taken in the restored banquet hall 
of the old palace. 
After luncheon, the party were conducted over the Minster 
by the Rev. Arthur Sutton, the Sub-Dean, who read the following 
instructive paper with regard to the architecture of the building :— 
“ As the time at our disposal is rather limited, it will perhaps 
be best for me to confine myself to a description of the architec- 
ture, without entering into the history of the Collegiate Church 
of St. Mary of Southwell. The foundation of the church is 
usually assigned to Paulinus, about the year 630. This first 
church was probably, like the one founded by him at York nearly 
at the same time, a hastily-constructed building of wood, which 
in time gave place to a nobler structure of stone; but of this 
church we seem to have hardly any remains left, unless the 
pavement, lately discovered in the south transept, may have 
belonged to that building, as the pieces of which it is composed 
seem almost too large, and the execution too coarse and rude, 
for a Roman building. Dickinson, in his history of Southwell, 
mentions the tympanum of a doorway which has been re-set 
over the door in the north transept, leading to the bell-chamber, 
as belonging to this period. But although there seems some 
reason to doubt this, we may safely say that it is older than any 
portion of the present building, that it is a good specimen of 
Saxon sculpture, and not later than the ninth century. A similar 
example exists at the neighbouring church of Hoveringham, and 
one at Hawksworth seems to belong to the same early date. 
Various explanations of this one have been given, but it seems 
not improbable that the figure on the left hand side (part of which 
