SOO REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1905 



We have pleasure in quoting from a recently published 

 Official Guide to the Fortifications of Berwick by 

 Church of Commander F. M. Norman, R.N., the following 

 the Holy references to this interesting Church, which was 

 Trinity. built mainly with stones from the Castle, projected 



in 1641 (Charles I.), begun in 1650 (Cromwell), 

 and opened in 1652: — "The style of architecture 'by courtesy' 

 is Italian : with more precision ' A corrupt development of 

 the Italian Renaissance style with a slight Gothic admixture.' 

 Mr Philip Norman, Treasurer of the London Society of 

 Antiquaries, has kindly sent me the subjoined extract from 

 Blomfield's History of Renaissance Architecture in England 

 (1897), an authoritative work: — 'A similar mixture of styles 

 (Renaissance and Gothic) occurs in the church of Berwiek- 

 on-Tweed, built by Colonel Fenwicke (Governor 1648-52). 

 This Church has a nave, and north and south aisles. The 

 nave arcade has plain semi-circular arches brought down 

 without any entablature upon the abaci of Tuscan columns ; 

 but the clerestory windows have three lights, the centre 

 light stepped up above the two side lights as at St. 

 Catherine Cree's. There is no tower, but two octagonal 

 turrets at the west end. In this case it almost seems as if 

 the Church was begun by a mason with classical tastes, and 

 finished by one who preferred the Gothic' The Church of 

 St. Catherine Cree above mentioned, in Leadenhall Street, 

 London, is very much like ours, and was built at the same 

 time. Originally ours had no chancel, the existing one, as 

 well as the vestry, having been added in 1855; and to this 

 day there is no tower, because the design never provided 

 for one, though it is said to have included a low Dome 

 between the turrets, which was not put up, perhaps from 

 want of funds. This is believed to be the only Church in 

 the Kingdom whose bells are rung in the Town Hall, one 

 of the first duties of a new Vicar being to proceed in his 

 surplice to that edifice and by a few strokes to establish 

 his right to his share in the use of its bells for purposes of 

 Divine worship. Inside, the prospect is decidedly pleasing, 

 an immense improvement having been affected by the removal 

 of two galleries and the addition of an organ-chamber in 

 1905. The Register dates from 1574, and the oldest memorial 



