By G. E Ponting, F.S.A. 



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and kindly presented the cast of the semicircular stone to our Museum 

 in 1905. Mr. Keyser, who visited the Church a few years ago, regards this 

 stone as a tympanum as stated above, the Bishop of Bristol, however, agrees 

 I believe, with Mr. Ponting and Mr. Passmore in regarding it as the head 

 of a cross, a contention which its small size would seem to favour. — Ed.] 



The Church of All Saints, Lydiard Millicent. 



The plan consists of chancel with modern vestry on the north, 

 nave with south aisle, south porch, and west tower. 



On entering this Church attention is at once arrested by the 

 remarkable stone now standing in the porch ; this consists of a 

 shaft about 1ft. 6in. long and 6in. in diameter, with bellied cap 

 and a base consisting of a splay with a roll above it ; at each end 

 is a dowell hole. This has all the character of Saxon work ; ^ it 



Early Shaft at Lydiard Millicent. 



' For the photo from which the accompanying illustration is given, we are 

 indebted to the kindness of Miss K. Wykeham Martin, of Purton, who took 

 it specially for the Magazine. 



