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at the corners and panels between, similar to the Upleatham 

 Font. One of the faces is carved with a kind of zig-zag or 

 herring-bone ornament, and another with scrolls, but it is 

 difficult to make out precisely what the ornament has been 

 owing to its position and mutilated condition. 



It is to be deplored that better care Bhould not be taken 

 of an object so interesting. Canon Atkinson (History of Cleve- 

 land) writes in this connection : "It is a thousand pities that 

 an object at once so characteristically beautiful and so 

 interesting as this old Font, which has witnessed and aided 

 in the dedication to God for twenty generations of Marske 

 men and women, should not be more reverently treated, or 

 at least more carefully saved from further ill usage and 

 destructive defacement."* 



Makton (St. Cuthbert). 

 This Church has been restored, and it is not easy to make 

 out what is old and what is new, as the whole of the old 

 work retained has been re-faced, and consequently the Church 

 is not now so interesting as it might have been. 



Graves (History of Clevelanil), writing before the restoration, 

 remarks : — " This is a small but ancient edifice, consisting of 

 a Nave, Chancel, and square Tower, but contains nothing 

 remarkable in its style of Architecture." While Ord, writing 

 after the restoration, states that " The restored Church is 

 only part of the original structure, which consisted of Nave, 

 north and south Aisles, with transepts and Chancel." He 

 further states that " The greater part was re-built in 1843, 

 including three of the Arches, the Chancel Arch and south 

 Porch, the style of the old work being closely adhered to," 

 and in a footnote " The transepts were early Norman, the 

 Nave of late Norman verging on transition to the next order 

 (style). It was difficult to trace the style of the old Chancel, 

 owing to the numerous alterations which had taken place." 

 These two descriptions, it will be noticed, differ very con- 

 siderably. The plan at present consists of a Nave, north 

 and south Aisles, north and south Transepts, and Chancel. 

 The north Nave Arcade is apparently original work, but has 

 been entirely re-faced, and some of it may have been re-built. 

 It consists of four bays and a large rectangular pier adjoining 

 the north transept. There are three whole pillars and two 

 half pillars, the first half pillar, beginning at the west end, 



*The preient Vicar, the Rev. F. Grant James, is about to have this 

 very interesting Font removed into the Marske Church. — Editor. 



