C.C, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 51 
SOME OLD BUILDINGS ROUND 
CHELTENHAM. 
by H. A. Proruero, M.A., F.R.I.B.A., 0.C, 
HIs lecture was given on October 22nd, in the Physics 
Lecture Room and was illustrated by photographic 
lantern slides made by Mr. Borchart, Mr. Youngman, 
Marklove, Whittuck and others. 
\ ih Wye The lecturer began by saying that he should 
, ieee speak mostly about Churches because most of the 
slides illustrated that part of the subject; and that he intended to 
wk not so much about architectural features as about ground 
plan, growth, and development. ‘There were two lines of ancestry 
from which our Churches were derived,—one, which may be called 
nutive or British ; the other imported from Italy; and these two 
very commonly acted on one another, so that a majority of our 
larger Churches shewed gradual transformation from one to the 
other, 
Taking the native and simpler type first, the lecturer showed 
1 slide of the Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon, and explained that 
these small Churches were simply two-roomed buildings, the larger 
room being the Nave and the smaller one the Chancel; the 
opening between the two being often hardly more than a doorway. 
Churches on this plan abounded near Cheltenham: Postlip, 
Southam, Little Washbourne, Stoke-Orchard, being examples. 
‘I'wo slides were next shewn of the Palatine Basilica, 7¢, Law 
Court at Rome, a building with Nave, Aisles, Chancel and Apse ; 
i plan just like a modern Church, but which never was a Church 
wtall; and of the first Cathedral at Canterbury, which, being built 
iter the influence of Italian traditions, could hardly be distin. 
euished in plan from the Basilica. 
When the Normans came they began to develope the simple 
‘woroomed Churches that they found, and not uncommonly 
