district, in. buildings contemporary with, this church.¹ The lowest and largest stone in the western quoin is about 4 feet, by 2 feet 9 inches, by 1 foot 5 inches, and there are indentations upon it which show that it has been used for some other purpose. There is also, on one side, what appears to be a hole for a lewis² (now stopped with cement), which, if it is so, implies that it once occupied a higher position in an earlier building. Each of these quoins contains one stone taken from a large arch; that in the western is 1 foot 11 inches long, 1 foot 3 inches wide at the upper or broadest end, and, to speak technically, 1 foot 8 inches deep in the bed; the other, in the eastern quoin, is broken, and I could not reach to measure it, but it seems to be of corresponding dimensions. I have not been into the church., and do not know whether the interior presents any characteristics to determine the date of the south wall. Externally the original features have been obliterated by subsequent alterations, but the construction shows that it is not later than the Early English period, and it probably may be older. It is very unlikely that at that time such stones as these could have been taken from any but a Roman building. I am too ignorant of geology to be able to say from whence these pieces of oolite have been brought, but it may be hoped that some one better informed will determine their native district. The Romans certainly carried oolite into this part of the country for building purposes, for fragments
   ¹ A stone of rather coarse texture, but very durable quality, of the oolite kind, dug on the banks of the Orne, below Caen, was imported into this country during the prevalence of the Norman and Early English styles, and possibly later; but this appears to be very different from the stones raider consideration, and I have never met with it in pieces of any great size, except perhaps occasionally a gravestone. Is not the stone in the Martyrdom, in the cathedral at Canterbury, on which Becket is said to have fallen, of this kind?
   ² The lewis is said to have been used in medieval times. I do not remember ever to have met with any indication of its employment.