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the lining of the interior portion of the walls. The 

 open-timbered roof has a pretty effect. From the 

 carved stone corbels spring carved ribs, and ribs divide 

 the ceiling into panels. There are carved bosses at the 

 intersections, those over the sacrarium being coloured 

 and enriched also by gilding, the cornice at the spring of 

 the roof being completed by a quatrefoil ornament. It 

 is intended to gild and colour the remaining bosses and 

 spandril carvings. Dividing the chancel from the nave 

 are two archways of Corsham Down stone one on each 

 side and the columns of polished Irish marble with 

 carved stone capitals have an imposing and elegant 

 appearance. At the north side, opening into the organ 

 chamber and the vestry, is a simple archway of Bath 

 stone. The reredos consists on either side of a central 

 mosaic panel charged with the Greek Alpha and Omega, 

 and bordered with encaustic and majolica tiles of ele- 

 gant pattern, supplied by Messrs. Maw & Co., who 

 likewise furnished the floor tiles. The east window is 

 very handsome, being filled with stained glass by Messrs. 

 Heaton, Butler and Bayne, of London, and cc The 

 Resurrection " is the subject represented. The centre 

 compartment represents the Saviour a nearly life-sized 

 figure with the Roman guards lying beneath. On one 

 side of the Saviour stand the Virgin Mary and the women 

 who first visited the holy sepulchre ; on the other side 

 is the angel sitting on the stone rolled away from the 

 door of the sepulchre, the background and sepulchre 



