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while dwelling on the desirability of educating people as to the 
value of old work, mentioned that within the last month a fifteenth 
century doorway in the High Street at Malmesbury, on the same 
side of the street as the King’s Arms, had been demolished. 
Tue Rey. H. K. Apxrin, of Crudwell, seconded, and in reference 
to the appeal to Members to copy the inscriptions in their own 
Churches and churchyards expressed his own willingness to do so, 
and thought that others might well do the same. 
The Officers of the Society were then formally re-appointed, and 
a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation for the use of the 
Town Hall was proposed by Tur Presinent, seconded by the 
Rey. E. H. Gopparp, and replied to shortly by Tue Mayor, who 
took the opportunity of putting in a word for the Restoration Fund 
of the Abbey. 
‘This, with the election of several new Members, concluded the 
business meeting, and the Members adjourned, passing the CROSS 
on the way, to THE ABBEY, of which a thorough inspection was 
made under the guidance of Mr. Haroip Braxksprar, F.S.A., 
_ the architect in charge of the extensive works of reparation now in 
progress. This work, which had become most urgently necessary, 
both at the west end and on the flying buttresses, is being most 
earefully done. Already the broken-backed flying buttresses, which 
threatened to come through the roof of the south aisle, have been 
in several cases re-built, stone by stone—new stones only being 
q added where they are absolutely necessary for safety—and the 
_ ruined west wall of the south transept has been put into a weather- 
tight condition, the destructive ivy has been cleared off it, the 
q arches here and there rendered secure with new stones (which are 
, left in block and do not pretend to be old ones) and the tops of the 
walls so secured as to keep the rain and frost out of them. At the 
west end, where both the remnants of the west front and the 
western end of the existing south aisle and the work above it are 
in a most perilous condition, considerable progress has been made 
with the new pier between them, and the wall over, which is being 
carried up to connect the two portions of the old work together, 
- When this section of the work is complete, the two western bays of 
