Head of ChaDcel Door

298 STANTON LACY CHURCH, NEAR LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, There is also a round-headed doorway on the north side, which will best be described by a di'awing and a section of the moulding of its label. The cen- tral voussoir, whether design- edly or accidently, projects downwards, so as to form a de- cided keystone. The pilaster strips, which have evidently been curtailed in their height, are composed of stones of different lengths, and are about five inches wide, and three in pro- jection from the wall, which has been carefully cleared of plaster and shewn to consist of irregular masonry. These strips do not quite touch the ground, but are terminated by a short transverse bar, and a similar bar also terminates the strips on which rest the label of the doorway. On the east and west sides of the north transept the pilaster strip is crossed l)y a short transverse bar at a height of about nineteen feet. The angles of the nave and transept, though dressed with masonry of a more regular character, do not present what is generally known under the name of " long and short work." Westward of the tower, and en- gaged in the northern wall of the nave, is a buttress, the masonry of which projects a little beyond the face of the wall, and its base also appears in the interior, as if a portion of the nave wall had been destroyed for its insertion, with the view of giving the central tower a more certain support. The support indeed of the tower is in no place trusted entirely to the walls in which the pilaster strips appear, there being a buttress on each side of the transept, which is much narrower than the tower. If these remains are Saxon (a question of course open to con- troversy), they are the more valuable, as indicating a cruci- form church of that date. J. L. p. iry, Stanton Lacy