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tlhe SelborJie Society’s fir>aoa3ine. 
No. 191. NOVEMBER, 1905. Vol. XVI. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Tintern Abbey. — The measures taken for the preservation 
of Tintern Abbey have made considerable progress, and the 
architect, Mr. F. W. Waller, in a recent report, brings the 
story up to date. The great east window presented the chief 
difficulty ; but it was found that the walls and buttresses, the 
jambs and arch of the window, and the gable over, though 
much affected by weather, were on the whole fairly substantial, 
and not much out of the perpendicular, but the large centre 
mullion and the remains of the tracery in the head of the 
window were in a very dangerous state. After much considera- 
tion it was decided to reset the stonework, and renew the 
tracery, while at the same time adding to the stability of the 
whole. Repairs have been made at the transepts and aisles, 
and at the refectory, where is the reader’s pulpit. It is 
announced that the important work to the sacristy, begun in 
1904, has been safely and satisfactorily completed, as also that 
to what now forms the public entrance to the building. Several 
interesting discoveries have been made. Part of the foundations 
of the original building were laid bare, and the dwarf wall of 
the cloisters, as well as the foundations of what was apparently 
a small chapel at the western end of the south aisle, and of a 
galilee at the west entrance. The most pressing work still to 
be done is in connection with the eastern arch of the tower. 
This arch is much crippled and out of place, and its fall might 
be productive of almost irreparable damage. 
The Swiney Lectures. — We are asked to announce that 
a course of twelve lectures under this endowment will be 
delivered at 5 p.m., on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
commencing on November 6, in the Lecture-theatre of the 
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, by Dr. John 
