454 The Sixtieth General Meeting. 



panels. This is continuous round the entire building, which has the 

 appearance of having been all erected at one time. The pilasters 

 clasp the angles and rise from a second plinth, some of them standing 

 on stepped bases. Above the pilasters is a square string-course, 

 upon which rests a slightly-recessed arcade with rounded arches ; 

 this runs round the entire Church, except that in the porch, the 

 walls of which are lower, the round arches are omitted, the small 

 pilasters stopping under a tabling. I want particularly to call 

 your attention to the amount of forethought shown in this part of 

 the building, an evidence of a practised hand and evincing a con- 

 siderable amount of skill. Upon the square string is a narrow 

 course forming the base, then a filling of large stones, and another 

 narrow course forming the cap. These continue at the same level 

 round the entire building. Between this base and cap are wall 

 pilasters, and above are semicircular arches, but the wall appears 

 to have been built flat, and the arcade to have been made by re- 

 cessing the space between the pilasters and under the arches, yet 

 the narrow cap and base stones referred to show that this arcade 

 was part of the original intention of the designer. There is no 

 haphazard or chance about it, but a preconceived design. If we 

 regard the face of the pilaster as the main face of the wall the cap 

 projects beyond it, and would when first built have the appearance 

 of a second string of less projection. Further, the pilasters, though 

 generally cut out of wider stones, are in some cases, on the east 

 end of the chancel, for instance, of just the width required, the 

 vertical joints do not come on the pilasters, showing that the position 

 of the pilasters was thought out before erection, just as the cap and 

 base courses were. Several of the vertical joints of the masonry, 

 it will be observed, are not upright, nor are the horizontal joints 

 level. It is clear from the width of the stones and the positions 

 of the joints that the enrichment of the wall surface by this arcade 

 is coeval with the walls. The fact thus established has a bearing 

 on the debated question of the date of the building. Some idea of 

 the probable date of the arcading, and consequently of the entire 

 building, may be gained by comparing it with the arcading on the 

 interior of the central tower of Dunham Magna Church, Norfolk, 



