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in the S. aisle, and looking towards the E. end, he called 
attention to a mass of masonry immediately N. of the E. window, 
which he considered to be the remains of a Norman turret. The 
position of this masonry (if Norman, as he supposed it to he) 
would account for the present Norman moulding over the E. 
window being cut off, as it were, by the S. wall of the aisle ; as 
this was originally an arch of the Norman apse leading to an 
ambulatory at the E. end, and had in the 16th century been 
built against and partly concealed by the present 8. wall. The 
base of the Norman piers in the N. aisle were then shown, and 
the remarkable narrowness of the present transepts explained 
by the conjecture that probably they’were the site of a N. and 8. 
Norman tower lengthened in the 16th century to their present 
shape. The present central tower was not on the site of a 
Norman tower. Going outside, he pointed out the plinth of 
13th century work beneath the arch of the S. porch, and where 
the lines of the S. wall of the Norman Abbey ran, and the 
‘supposed site of the Cloisters on the S. At the E. end, he 
explained his views as to the Norman bases beneath the external 
butresses, 7.¢., that instead of being the bases of the piers of a 
central tower they were the bases of the pillars of the arch 
forming the Apse and Ambulatory ; and that they were of two 
‘dates, the angular one being evidently a portion of a large round 
base of earlier date than the others, which he considered 
Transition. After this the members walked to Tucking Mill, 
near Midford, to select a suitable position for the erection of a 
marble tablet to the memory of William Smith. A plain marble 
tablet with the following inscription— 
Here lived 
William Smith, 
“ Father of English Geology ;” 
Born, 28rd March, 1769 ; 
Died, 28th August, 1839, 
has since been let into the masonry of the cottage wall, by the 
