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Archeology. 



SAXON AND NORMAN. 



EARLY ENGLISH. 



DECORATED. 



Swanscombe 



Church 

 (St. Peter & 



St. Paul). 



Woolwich 



On S. side of tower is 

 double-splayed round- 

 headed window of Saxon 

 work. Some masses of 

 Roman masonry in 

 quoins of tower. Chan- 

 cel walls are Saxon or 

 E. Norman, & contain 

 remains of circular- 

 headed windows & one 

 semi-circular window in 

 N. wall of chancel. 



a Three E.E. arches 

 nave, with carved caps 

 to two pillars & corbels 

 other caps are plain- 

 moulded. Two E.E, 

 windows in chancel, N 



in Decorated windows in 

 lower part of W. side of 

 tower, & also one E. of 

 S. aisle. One window in 

 S. of chancel. 



* signifies : " Personally visited for the purpose of this 



[N.B. We have received the following note from W. H. Griffin, Hon. Sec., Catford, and 

 " I think that some mention should be made of the ruins of the very ancient 

 the Ordnance Maps as ' Chapel in Ruins.' B. Harrison once told me that it is 

 large Sarsen stone there which was first the altar of a heathen temple, and 

 the bushes and herbage within the walls. The Chapel is said to have once 

 most ancient fragment of our ecclesiastical buildings in the district, but I 



