WELLINGTON SCULPTURES. 3l 
each colour, I am enabled to vouch for the accuracy 
ofthe specimen given in the accompanying plate. 
What the design of this reredos was seems very 
uncertain; the principal fragments found form por- 
tions of a regular series of panels, about twenty 
inches high. In the centre was the crucifixion, and 
“on each side were trefoiled niches, so disposed as 
that a larger figure, averaging seventeen inches 
high, in a niche the whole height of the relief, 
alternated with pairs of smaller figures, one above 
the other, each about eight and a half inches high, 
ranged in smaller compartments, two of which are 
comprised in the height ofthe sculptures”. I have 
been unable to form any satisfactory idea of the 
original arrangement of this screen: there were 
evidently larger figures, probably half the size of 
life, for portions of very rich canopies remain of this 
size, one of which appears to have been the centre 
of the arrangement. The panel, containing St. 
Christopher, would seem to have commenced the 
series of smaller figures; the crucifixion occupies 
the centre, and I believe the St. Michael, with the 
shrouded figure, was the last. 
« The crucifixion represents our Lord (in the most 
conventional way) extended on a T cross. The 
compartment is foliated under a square head: the 
ground is blue, thickly pounced with fleurs-de-lys 
in gold, but at the lower part a green colour has 
been added over the blue, as if to represent a back- 
ground of country,” probably, from its being in the 
