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By F. C. HiPKiNS, M.A., F.S.A. 



|N Vol. v. of our Journal there is a very interesting 

 article " On the Crypt beneath the Chancel of Repton 

 Church, Derbyshire," by the late J. T. Irvine, Esq., 

 F.S.A., Scot. I am very sorry to write that he died 

 on June 6th, 1900, at the age of seventy-five. All the members 

 of our Society, who had the pleasure of knowing him, or had 

 read his most interesting articles in our Journal, will agree 

 with me that by his death, antiquaries and archaeologists 

 have suffered a great loss. He made a special study of Repton 

 Crypt, and when he heard that excavations were about to be 

 made to find out the extent, etc., of the recesses in the Crypt 

 he most kindly sent me his plans, with permission to use them, 

 which I ha\e done — with additions — in the plan opposite. 

 He also attended the expedition our Society made to Repton 

 on June 3rd, 1899, and gave us a most interesting lecture in 

 the Cr)-pt, pointing out its various and unique details. He 

 was most interested in the excavations, and expressed himself 

 as much pleased with the result. 



In Vol. LIII. (Dec, 1896) of the Royal Archaeological Insti- 

 tute of Great Britain, there is another most interesting article 

 by J. T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., entitled " Something about 

 Saxon Church Building." Ground plans of about thirty Anglo- 

 Saxon Churches are given, among them two of Repton, one 

 of the Church and another of the Crypt, which he compares 



