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Mr. URBAN,

Mornington-crescent,
Nov. 16.

a parish pleasantly situated in the Golden Vale, or Vale of the Dore, in the south-western part of the county of Hereford. The Church possesses considerable interest, from the singularity of its plan.

The present edifice consists of four apartments, A, B, C, D, the westernmost, A, being the original nave, and the others, B, C, D, the chancel. The present nave is formed of two of these. apartments, A, B, which communicate under a semicircular arch, the imposts adorned with the starry moulding.

It is entered from the outside by two doorways placed north and south, the former of them in the early Pointed style, and protected by a porch, the latter a semi-circular arch springing from attached shafts, and enriched with convex and concave zig-zag, billet, and lozenge mouldings; the head of the arch filled with a transom stone. This portion of the building receives light from ten windows, four of them loopholes, the same number of two lights with trefoil heads, a single light, and one in the roof of two lights; the two last are comparatively modern. A circular newel'stair-case in the north wall formerly led to the rood-loft; it now conducts to a gallery: under this gallery is preserved some oak carving of an elegant scroll pattern, which probably formed part of the ornamental work in the screen or the rood-loft. In the south wall is a small trefoil-headed piscina.

The present chancel is entered under a lofty semicircular arch, and, like the nave, comprises two apartments, C, D. The first, C, is in plan a parallelogram, the second or easternmost, D, terminates in a half-circle. These are lighted by five long narrow apertures, which were doubtless originally mere loop-holes, although only three of them remain as such. It would appear, then, that this church, when first completed, obtained light only from those small openings; for all the windows of a greater size are evidently of much later date than the walls. The semicircular apsis, or niche, is particularly remarkable for containing the an

perty, an hotel, situated in Rue St. Honoré, through the agency of the notary, at the Hall of the Notaries, at Paris.

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cient altar, a, in a perfect state: it is made of square-set masonry, coated with plaster, and covered by a freestone table or slab marked with five

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Nov. 16.

ETERCHURCH is the name of

Parish pleasantly situated in the

Golden Vale, or Vale of the Dore, in the south-western part of the county of Hereford. The Church possesses considerable interest, from the singularity of its plan.

The present edifice consists of four apartments, A, B, C, D, the westernmost, A, being the original nave, and the others, B, C, D, the chancel. The present nave is formed of two of these. apartments, A, B, which communicate under a semicircular arch, the imposts adorned with the starry moulding.

It is entered from the outside by two. doorways placed north and south, the former of them in the early Pointed style, and protected by a porch, the latter a semi-circular arch springing from attached shafts, and enriched with convex and concave zig-zag, billet, and lozenge mouldings; the head of the arch filled with a transom stone. This portion of the building receives light from ten windows, four of them loopholes, the same number of two lights with trefoil heads, a single light, and one in the roof of two lights; the two last are comparatively modern. A circular newel stair-case in the north wall formerly led to the rood-loft; it now conducts to a gallery: under this gallery is preserved some oak carving of an elegant scroll pattern, which probably formed part of the ornamental work in the screen or the rood-loft. In the south wall is a small trefoil-headed piscina.

The present chancel is entered under a lofty semicircular arch, and, like the nave, comprises two apartments, C, D. The first, C, is in plan a parallelogram, the second or easternmost, D, terminates in a half-circle. These are lighted by five long narrow apertures, which were doubtless originally mere loop-holes, although only three of them remain as such. It would appear, then, that this church, when first completed, obtained light only from those small openings; for all the windows of a greater size are evidently of much later date than the walls. The semicircular apsis, or niche, is particularly remarkable for containing the an

perty, an hotel, situated in Rue St. Honoré, through the agency of the notary, at the Hall of the Notaries, at Paris.

a

D

C

B

A

E

cient altar, a, in a perfect state: it is made of square-set masonry, coated with plaster, and covered by a freestone table or slab marked with five

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