By C. E. PoHtimj, F.S.A. 



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Two rude sundials are cut on the south face of the old tower 

 buttress. 



The work referred to on the shields as having been done in 1816 

 appears to have been the entire re-fitting of the Church with oak. 

 This work, although of the Batty Langley type of Gothic, is most 

 admirable in workmanship and very elaborate and costly — it was 

 no doubt this fact which led the twelve good men who paid for it, to 

 believe (and to try to induce posterity to believe also) that they had 

 "all but" re-built the Church. These fittings consist of a rich 

 altar-piece with panels for the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, and 

 the Creed, wall panelling to the chancel, a pew on each side of the 

 chancel, pews in nave and aisles, a western gallery with concave 

 front and two staircases, a pulpit on the north side with the word 

 " Peace " in a panel on the back, an Agnus Dei and a cross on the 

 front and sounding-board with l.H.S. ; a reading-desk on the south 

 to match the pulpit, but with the word " Grace " on the back, the 

 emblems spear, sponge, and four nails on the front, and i.n.r.i. on 

 the sounding-board ; six curious little forms with backs for placing 

 in the passages ; and a stone font in the centre of the western part, 

 of the central passage — the pews being formed to admit of a passage 

 round it. The whole thing, although inconvenient, is so good in 

 its way that a natural reluctance is felt to interfere with it. 



The untouched condition of the fabric makes this Church an 

 unusually interesting study, and affords a valuable opportunity of 

 preserving its history by judicious restoration. 



The Chapel of S. Martin. Chisbury. 1 



The camp within which we are assembled is an earthwork of, 



doubtless, British origin, subsequently increased in strength, as a 



section cut through the fosse by Sir E». C. Hoare revealed the turf 



covering of a former embankment some 15ft. below the present 



surface. The camp contains an area of fifteen acres, and has a 



double entrenchment. 



l I am indebted to Mr. Shekleton Balfour and Mr. H. L. Anderson for the 

 kind loan of measured drawings of the Chapel, made by them at my suggestion 

 . since the visit of the Society, and reproduced in the accompanying plates. 



