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o'clock. The weather was true to the traditions of the Club^ 

 and "Field Club weather" was ideally maintained throughout 

 the day. The first halt was called at the Cathedral in Lisburn, 

 where the Rev. Canon Pounden m,et and conducted the party 

 over the building, and from the chancel steps explained its 

 history, pointing out the many features of interest. This 

 church is so well concealed from view by the town business 

 houses that it seldom attracts the notice of the visitor to the 

 town, but within and around the church walls there is so much 

 connecting it with the building of the nation, that cannot fail to 

 be of interest that a few words regarding it may not be out of 

 place. "The church called St. Thomas's Church stood on the 

 site of the present building, and was eighty feet long, by twenty- 

 five feet wide in the inside, with a porch at the south side. It 

 does not appear when first built tO' have been furnished with a 

 tower or spire, although from a memorandum in the registry of 

 6th April, 1674, stating that at that time 'the steeple was made 

 new and a bell bought,' it appears that a spire was afterwards 

 built, ... It may be added that Lisnegarvey (now Lis- 

 burn) is called a chapelry in a registry of the year 1662, and 

 that in a most minute terrier made out between the years 1604 

 and 1609, enumerating all the parishes and chapels belonging 

 to the dioceses of Down and Connor, that name nowhere ap- 

 pears. In 1662 Lisburn received a charter from Charles II., 

 and by that patent the church is made the cathedral and 

 episcopal seat of both dioceses of Down and Connor for ever 

 by the name of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Lisburn" — (S. 

 Walkington). We gather from these notes that the church is 

 close on three hundred years old, and successive alterations 

 have brought it to its present arrangement of plan, &c. The 

 spire was added in 1807. The church now contains some 

 beautiful stained-glass windows commemorating the bishops of 

 the diocese since 1660 and the rectors of the parish since 1628, 

 and also a monument to the famous Bishop Jeremy Taylor. An- 

 other monument that must always be of interest is to Lieutenant 

 Dobbs, who was killed in an engagement with Paul Jones, the 

 founder of the American navy. This monument has a beauti- 



