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strong opinion was expressed by the Bishop, and endorsed by all 
the Members present, that these remains of the reredos should be 
once more placed in the Church for preservation, and this the 
Rector, the Rev. Raymonp James, who read some notes on the 
interesting series of mural paintings formerly existing in the Church, 
and some of them still visible, promised that he would endeavour to 
see done. It is in matters of this kind that the visits of the Society 
are often productive of real good. The luncheon at the Bell Inn, 
which followed, was a very crowded and exceedingly warm ex- 
perience. 
LITTLETON DREW CHURCH, to which the carriages proceeded 
after lunch, has, with the exception of a good recumbent effigy 
under, an arch in the south wall of the nave, nothing of interest, 
having been re-built some years ago, but in the churchyard on 
either side of the path are two stones of a Saxon CROSS SHAFT 
which have never been described or figured. Attention had been 
drawn to these by the President—a specialist in such matters—and 
_ the timeavailable here was spent in taking rubbings of the sculptured 
faces, the results of which, with the Bishop’s notes thereon, will 
appear in a future number of the Magazine. These are the only 
pre-Norman stones at present known of in the county which have 
not already been illustrated in the Magazine. There is also standing 
here in the churchyard, near them, a tall rather plain cross, of later 
date, the whole of the shaft and head of which, consisting of three 
Stones, is said to have been found, as were the pre-Norman stones, 
built into the walls of the Church. If this was really so, they are 
in a remarkable state of preservation. The base on which they 
stand is, in any case, modern. . 
GRITTLETON was the next item on the programme. Here there 
is little ancient about the CHURCH except the tower, and as there 
was a funeral going on, the party at once crossed the road to the 
HOUSE. Unhappily Sir Ancernon Neewp himself was even 
then seriously ill—an illness which soon after proved fatal—_ 
‘and could not receive his visitors, but he most kindly desired 
that the programme might not be altered, and Carr. RearnaLp 
Neexip, R.N., and Mrs. Neexp received them in his stead, 
