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The Twentieth General Meeting. 



pavements, and which robbed the animals of the dignified appearance 

 which these possessed. Indeed/the expression of the animals, and 

 the general arrangement of the tesserse, stamped this pavement as 

 being one of the finest in the country. (The Professor called the 

 attention of the party to some capitally executed drawings of the 

 pavement in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association.) 

 From the beauty of this pavement he inferred that it could not 

 originally have stood alone, but must have formed an important part 

 of an extensive flooring, and efforts had been made to discover further 

 remains, but so far as he knew no other pavement had been discovered 

 in the immediate neighbourhood. 



A lengthy and minute inspection of the pavement followed, and 

 the Rev. A. C. Smith having chronicled the visit of the Society in 

 the visitors' book, the party, still under Professor Church's guidance, 

 wound its way, via Gloucester Street, to 



"The Pane." 



The party having all been safely conducted through the narrowest 

 of thoroughfares, and by the darkest of passages to this venerable 

 pile, the learned Professor read a short description of the building, 

 which stated that it was supported by six pillars, of the Norman 

 period, which were still in good preservation. It was known as the 

 Hospital Church of St. John, but Leland was of opinion that it was 

 one of the three parish churches, viz., St. Lawrence's, which for- 

 merly belonged to the town, but in this Mr. Fuller explained that 

 Leland was quite wrong, as appears by existing records in the 

 Worcester Registry, and the Rolls Office. He was no doubt con- 

 fused in his recollection between the two Hospitals of St. John and 

 St. Lawrence, the latter of which stood further up Gloucester Street, 

 then called St. Lawrence Street, on the opposite side of the way and 

 never had any chapel attached to it. 



The Rev. E. A. Fuller then undertook the pilotage of the Society, 

 and under his guidance the Members arrived in due course at the 

 next point of inspection, which was 



The Remaining Gateway of the Abbey, 

 which opens into Grove-lane. Mr. Fuller gave a brief description 



