36 PAPERS, ETC. 
“ The general date ofthe chancel of Wellington 
church being of the transition from first to middle- 
pointed, this reredos must have been a later addition.” 
The foregoing quoted passages are taken from 
an account given in the Ecclesiologist for August, 
1848, from sketches and memoranda which I fur- 
nished. As they afford information additional to 
that supplied by myself, I have extracted them to 
accompany the illustration of one of the fragments 
now given to the public for the first time. The 
portion containing the figure of St. Catharine has 
been selected as affording an example of costume 
very characteristic, and clearly marking the date of 
these sculptures. Few can fail to admire the exqui- 
site grace and symmetry of this representation of 
one of the most favorite saints of the middle ages. 
The gown open at the sides, and displaying the 
dress beneath, is stated by Fairholt, in his useful 
work on “ Costume in England,” to be first observ- 
able in monuments of the time of Edward III, and 
to have continued in fashion until the reign of 
Henry VI, a period of about a century, a sufficient 
proof of the estimation in which this elegant costume 
was held. In the notice previously quoted, it is 
stated that there is no head-dress; this is hardly 
correct; the peculiar horns which made the ladies’ 
head-dress of this period notorious, are very clearly 
distinguishable. 
On the centre mullion of the east window of a 
chantry chapel adjoining the south aisle of this 
