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significance in this I cannot say, but it naturally recalls to ones 

 mind the paintings on the West side of the nave piers at S. 

 Alban's Abbey, and which are not repeated on the East side. 



I have also brought two specimens of some old oak panelling, 

 which were found supporting the lead flat near the junction of 

 chapel roof and chancel. Some other larger pieces were also 

 found and are preserved at the church. These I think, from the 

 remains of early painting on them, had originally formed part of 

 a screen, (either a rood screen, or between the chapel and the 

 aisle or chancel) and after the destruction of the screen had been 

 used for repairing the boarding of the chapel roof. The painted 

 surface we found on the underside the lead resting on the side 

 which you see is so much decayed. I doubt if they originally 

 formed part of the present chancel screen, but were more probably 

 a part of the screens which were usually erected in the archways 

 separating a side chapel from the isle and chancel. 



It is certainly an interesting subject of speculation at what date 

 the woodwork was used for repairing the chapel roof. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate 1. — A plan of the roof of the flungerford Chapel looking 



upwards. 

 Plate 2. — Sections of the roof showing th^ principal timbers and 



purlins, with part of the longitudinal section. The sections 



also show the new trussed girders which hare been put in 



to carry the oJd timbers. 



The Hedgemead Landslip. By Charles Moorb, F.G.S. 

 (Read February ith, 1880.^ 



In the early days of Geology as a science, which even now 

 are not so far back, and most of its veteran leaders having one by 



