8o BRADBOURNE CHURCH. 



been stricken by the curse of restoration, its history so needlessly 

 wiped out, and the mouldings of the arcade, and the font, re-tooled 

 to such an extent that the original forms could barely be dis- 

 tinguished. In the chancel the white alabaster steps were spoken 

 of as having been obtained by cutting up the incised slab to which 

 allusion had been made. If this sort of work, added the speaker, 

 was " restoration," it would be interesting to know what meaning 

 was attached to destruction when the church was "restored." 



Mr. Hartshorne subsequently showed the members a late 

 Norman font, which, until three years ago, had been in constant 

 use in Bradbourne, as a pig-trough. It was probably the font 

 which the canons abolished when they first came to Bradbourne. 



