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May, by train to Swindon and Cirencester, and thence by road, 

 passing through the villages of Ampney Crucis, Ampney St, Mary, 

 and Poulton, to Fairford. In addition to the clerk of the church, 

 who is himself quite an institution and worth a long journey to 

 listen to, J. D. T. Niblett, Esq., of Haresfield Court, very kindly 

 accompanied the members and explained the intricate mazes of the 

 painted story. It was of course necessary to allow the clerk to 

 take the initiative, and an hour was spent in listening to the quaint 

 fellow recording the traditional story, window by window, until the 

 whole twenty-eight had been described. Beelzebub looking through 

 the ruby bars of his prison awaiting his prey, the green, blue, and 

 red devils with their yellow eyes and horrid scaly bodies seemed to 

 be a special object of his admiration ; and his description of the 

 tortures of the damned in the " Doom" window began at last to be 

 somewhat tedious and rather too materialistic. It is but right, 

 however, to record that although he dwelt somewhat fondly on 

 these points, yet he was generally well up in his story, and pointed 

 out most of the gems in colouring, design, dress, and scenery with 

 which these beautiful windows abound. The histoiy which has in 

 it a certain unity and design commences at the window immediately 

 west of the screen in the north aisle with the temptation of Adam 

 and Eve, and is treated in the usual conventional way of that period 

 (the first part of the 16th century) — Eve with yellow flowing hair, 

 and the serpent with a human head seen through the branches of 

 the tree. Three other Old Testament subjects follow in succession 

 to the eastwards. The peculiarity of the head-dress with lappels 

 of the Queen of Sheba was pointed out by Mr. Niblett as similar 

 to that of the mother of Henry VII. in Westminster Abbey. Next 

 followed scenes from the apocryphal and true gospels. The 

 perspective of the church, with its low-arched windows, lofty piers, 

 and groined roof in which the circumcision is represented is very 

 striking, so also are the faces of the attendant priests. The east 

 window, with its upper and lower tier of five lights each, is filled 

 with scenes in our Lord's life immediately before and during His 

 crucifixion, the crosses being in the form of the letter T (the tau 

 cross). The trappings on the horses of the Roman soldiery are 

 very rich, and the peculiar treatment of the Crucifixion and the 



