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replaced an earlier building erected by the nuns, and from thence 

 the water-supply of the Abbey is still conveyed. 



Eighteenth Century. 



Many alterations were made in the last century. It will be 

 sufficient to mention the hall, which was remodelled about 1756. 

 It appears to have succeeded an older one, perhaps a private hall 

 of the abbess. 



On the alterations of the present century it will not be necessary 

 to enter. 



Some pieces of painted glass, preserved in the hall and galleries, 

 are worthy of notice; and among the pictures, there are some 

 curious portraits painted on panel. Many of these are not iden- 

 tified. That of Henry Till, is believed to be by Holbein. 



The caldron made at Malines in Belgium in 1500, has been 

 often described. 



Some of the principal stones of the Lacock market-cross are 

 preserved ; and as a section and elevation exist, drawn to scale by 

 Carter, it would easily admit of restoration. It was rather a plain 

 cross, and apparently of Perpendicular date. 



A PAPER ON 



Monumental %tmt8 tit some of % Cjjnrejjes 

 neat* C|i||en|am. 



By the Rev. Edward C. Awdry, 



Vicar of Kington St. Michael. 

 Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society, at Chippenham, on Wednesday Evening, Sep. 8th, 1869. 



The writer is indebted for much information to the " Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire," by 

 Mr. Edward Kite of Devizes, published in 1860 : also to the volume entitled " Monumental Brasses 

 and Slabs," by the Rev. Charles Boutell, M.A , published 1847. 



HAYE been requested at this Meeting of the Wilts 

 Archseological Society, to make a few remarks on a strictly 

 archceological subject, the history of some of the oldest memorials 

 of the departed left in our ecclesiastical buildings, Monumental 



