Report of Meetings for 1880, by James Hardy. 245 



some flint weapons of the American Indians from Kentucky, 

 ■wMcli lie had brought with him on his return to England, viz., a 

 smoothed hatchet, and a chipped spear and arrow-head. These 

 were characterised as possessing a neck to facilitate their being 

 fastened to the handle. There was a small fernery in the garden 

 that contained a specimen of the Kyloe Crag Asplenium septen- 

 trionale, of which one or two tufts had recently been observed by 

 Mr Wilson. 



The church was next inspected under the conduct of Mr Hind- 

 marsh. Eebuilt in 1827, it is almost entirely modern. The 

 interior incorporates a Norman arch, of 13th century workman- 

 ship ; which was discovered last year (1879), when the ceiling 

 was taken from the chancel on its being restored by the Eev. W. 

 A. Clark, and his son, Mr G. D. A. Clark. This arch had been 

 plastered up, and the pillars that supported it had been hewn 

 away. In the inner side of it there is a piece of old dog-tooth 

 carving. During the repairs of the chancel also there were 

 several carved stones discovered built up into the walls. I am 

 informed that the " chancel windows are condemned, and will be 

 also restored in greater harmony with the church." 



It was the local idea that this arch had been derived from the 

 old chapel on the Crag, and reconstructed here ; but Mr F. E. 

 Wilson's opinion about the age of this fabric is more to be relied 

 on. " From the structural evidence we may see that the ancient 

 chapel, formerly part of the possessions of the priory of Nostill, 

 in Yorkshire, was only altered and not effaced. Some of it is 

 still in situ. The masonry of the present chancel is ancient. 

 New windows have been inserted in it, and buttresses have been 

 placed against it ; but the old work of the masons of the middle 

 ages forms the great bulk of it."* 



Either this chapel or that on the Crag is referred to as having 

 been in existence when the Inquisition of 1399 was taken, as 

 there is reference to "La Chapelle Eode ;" and "Nicholas the 

 Chaplain," then resided in a "cottage" in the town. In Mac- 

 kenzie's History it is spoken of as having been erected in l700.f 

 But according to Archdeacon Sharpe's Notes in answer to 

 Horsley's Queries, it is said, that " anciently this was a chapel to 



* The Cliiirches of the Archdeaconry of Lindisfame, p. 85. 

 t Hist, of Northumberland, i., p. 398. " It was built in 1700 and seated 

 in 1759."— WaUis, Hist. Northd., ii., p. 415. 



