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also gave some particulars of several of tlie more dis- 

 tinguished members of tlie same family. Tlüs cliurch bas 

 becn very beautifully restored. Weston church is one of 

 a very singiilar and alraost uniqiie ground plan, closely 

 resembling the yet more singular one of St. Mellons, in 

 Monmouthshire. It consists of nave, chancel, soutb porch, 

 tower soutb-east of tbe nave, witb a chapel east of it 

 attacbed to tbe soutb slde of tbe cbanceb This, witb a 

 sancte-bell cot over tbe gable of tbe nave, produces a 

 bigbly picturesque outline. Of detail tbere is little or 

 none. Tbe tower is Early Englisb, tbe rest cbiefly Per- 

 pendicular. Tbe cluu-cb contanis a monument to tbe 

 Percivals, wbicb Mr. Freeman sald was tlie latest instance 

 be knew of a Frencb inscription on a monument in 

 England, tbe date being 1483. Tbe Rev. F. Warre re- 

 inarked tbat at Hinton St. George tbere was a monument 

 to Sir Amias Poulett, wbicb was a Century later, and bad 

 an inscription in Frencb. A curious gallery over tbe door- 

 way in tbe porcb was tbe subject of mucb speculation, 

 Above it was a nicbe, and a passage made in tbe wall led to 

 it. Pemains of a similar gallery in tbe porcb were after- 

 wards found in otber cburcbes, and it was considered a local 

 custom; according to tbe tradition of tbe county, it was 

 used for singing or cbanting a part of tbe Service on certain 

 occaslons, as at weddings. Sucb a gallery is quite distinct 

 from tbe usual room over tbe porcb, erroneously called tbe 

 parvise. 



Tbe füllowing notice of tbis gallery bas since been 

 supplied by Mr. Elliot, one of tbe Secretaries, in a paper 

 read by bim at one of tbe convei'sazione meetings of tbe 

 Society : — 



" I subjoin a description of tbis gallery, extracted from a 

 letter to tbe Editor of tbe Ecclesiologist, by tbe Rev. W. 



