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while dwelling on the desirability of educating people as to the 

 value of old work, mentioned that within the last month a fifteenth 

 century doorway in the High Street at Malmesbury, on the same 

 side of the street as the King's Arms, had been demolished. 



The Rev. H. K. Adkin, of Orudwell, seconded, and in reference 

 to the appeal to Members to copy the inscriptions in their own 

 Churches and churchyards expressed his own willingness to do so, 

 and thought that others might well do the same. 



The Officers of the Society were then formally re-appointed, and 

 a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation for the use of the 

 Town Hall was proposed by The President, seconded by the 

 Rev. E. H. Goddard, and replied to shortly by The Mayor, who 

 took the opportunity of putting in a word for the Restoration Fund 

 of the Abbey. 



This, with the election of several new Members, concluded the 

 business meeting, and the Members adjourned, passing the CEOSS 

 on the way, to THE ABBEY, of which a thorough inspection was 

 made under the guidance of Mr. Harold Brakspear, F.S.A., 

 the architect in charge of the extensive works of reparation now in 

 progress. This work, which had become most urgently necessary, 

 both at the west end and on the flying buttresses, is being most 

 carefully done. Already the broken-backed flying buttresses, which 

 threatened to come through the roof of the south aisle, have been 

 in several cases re-built, stone by stone — new stones only being 

 added where they are absolutely necessary for safety — and the 

 ruined west wall of the south transept has been put into a weather- 

 tight condition, the destructive ivy has been cleared off it, the 

 arches here and there rendered secure with new stones (which are 

 left in block and do not pretend to be old ones) and the tops of the 

 walls so secured as to keep the rain and frost out of them. At the 

 west end, where both the remnants of the west front and the 

 western end of the existing south aisle and the work above it are 

 in a most perilous condition, considerable progress has been made 

 with the new pier between them, and the wall over, which is being 

 carried up to connect the two portions of the old work together. 

 When this section of the work is complete, the two western bays of 



