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days have used it well. The unusual-shaped gabled bell 

 turret, with open arches for three bells, looks massy and grey 

 over the tree tops, and tells us solemnly, " I've seen five 

 hundred years pass by." Some parts of the edifice are not 

 so ancient, but the additions have been made so judiciously 

 that we cannot but approve and admire. There are north 

 and south aisles to the nave, and an unusually long and fine 

 chancel. The fenestration is beautifully managed ; slender 

 lancet windows light the aisles and west end of nave, all 

 filled with memorial stained glass ; while a large window of 

 the decorated period of gothic art lights the east end. A most 

 refined taste has presided over all the arrangements, which, 

 either in detail or as a whole, are worthy of all praise. A 

 mosaic reredos and the tesselated pavement of the chancel 

 are both subsidiary in colour to the glowing hues of the stained 

 glass; and the low-backed seats, pulpit, lectern furnished 

 with its costly brass bound book of gospels, all unite in pro- 

 ducing one uniform tone of fitness through the edifice. At 

 the east end of the south aisle is a stone-coped tomb covering 

 the remains of the late Lord Frederick Fitzclarence ; and a 

 white silk pall embroidered with a red cross covers the resting 

 place of his daughter the late Miss Augusta Fitzclarence. 



The remains of the Castle at Etal are considerable and of 

 great archaeological interest. The great entrance-gateway 

 appears to have been of the same defensive form as the bar- 

 bacan existing at Alnwick Castle. An outer drawbridge 

 conducted to an archway with a portcullis entering into a 

 small open court-yard or trap surrounded by walls on four 

 sides, from the top of which the garrison could assault the 

 enemy. This portion of the barbacan at Etal is demolished ; 

 the inner gateway-tower, however, remains, and though roof- 

 less and floorless is in good preservation. This part differs 

 from the entrance-towers of Alnwick Castle, in having had a 

 very handsome chamber immediately above the groined arch- 

 way lighted by handsome muUioned and traceried windows : 

 one of these exists in the west wall and a similar one in the 

 east wall, together with a carved armorial panel. 



The ruins of a colossal kind of keep tower exist, covered 



