132 AN EXCURSION. 



itself, having not only the same plan but the same splayed 

 curve. The masonry connecting the Tower and church, 

 however, has from the outside a peculiar appearance, and the 

 small window on the south-west wall of the church seems out 

 of place and so lend countenance to a different date for the 

 church and Tower. 



The mouldings at the top of the octagonal pillars are 

 reduced to the very smallest dimensions, showing a decadence 

 from the original style. In the Town Church they are much 

 bolder, showing an earlier date of erection. The flattened 

 shape of the arches forming the arcades on each side of the 

 nave also points to a late period of the Flamboyant style. 

 Notice the arches and pillars are not Norman in any sense ; 

 the whole is evidently the work of the loth century. 



The Tower contains three bells, as when Mr. Lukis wrote. 

 The tenor bell weighs 15 cwt., it is 44^ inches in diameter. 

 There is only one larger than this in the island, viz., one in 

 the Town Church. 



Rev. H. W. Brock kindly supplies me with the inscriptions 

 on the bells : — 



COPIE DE L'INSCRIPTION LATINE QUI EST AUTOUR DE LA 

 GROSSE CLOCHE DE L'EGLTSE DE ST. PIERRE-DU-BOIS. 



" JJt inserviam Parochice Sancti Petri da Bois fusa fui anno Domini 1681. 

 " Regnique Garoli II. 33° quo tempore Bominus illustrissimu,s Christopher Hatton 

 erat hujus insula Gubernator Patronusque Ecelesiarum. Rever. Poet. J. de 

 Saumares erat Becanas. P. Bonamy riee-Becanus, hvjusque parochia rector. 



T. Be VIsle Capitaneus, erantque (Eeonomi J. de Garis § JS T . Le Messurier.'''' 



SUR LA PETITE CLOCHE EN CARACTERE GOTHIQUE : 



" Melior vcrc non est Campana quam me."' 



SUR LA 2eme CLOCHE, EN MEME CARACTERE : 



" Melior vere non est Campana quam <?«." 



There is a necessity of explaining the two small windows 

 in the south wall, they differ so completely from the others in 

 the building. A suggestion is offered that an insufficient 

 number of windows was prepared by the workmen in Brittany, 

 or that some were destroyed in transit ; so Avhen the actual 

 builders in Guernsey discovered the deficiency, they prepared 

 these two on the spot, and they were not skilful enough to 

 follow the design or imitate the tracery in the other windows. 

 In these again the arch is flattened and thus rendered incapable 

 of supporting any very heavy superstructure, so it is perhaps 

 a fortunate thing that the original roof of vaulted masonry 

 has been removed. The modern one, at first tiled but now 

 slated, is well constructed, but is out of keeping with the 



