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 14-6 CHURCH OF GILLINGHAM, NOEFOLK. the heads are finished ^Yith a series of channels in the rough- cast, radiating as arch-stones. (Nave.) West of tower, the roof is of the same kind as the other part of nave, but not ceiled to underside of collar and strut. The Font is octagonal. The door on the south side is late Decorated, or Perpendicular. There is a perpen- dicular two-light window over west doorway. (Exterior.) The Tower is covered with rough-cast, worked up to and flush with the free-stone. On the North side, the belfry opening is shown in the representation here given. The large arch has twenty-two pellets, on the outer ring ; there are twenty compartments in the second division, and nineteen double cones in the third. The west side arch is the same as those on the east face. On the East face, the large arch is divided into two ; the outer ring has billets semicircular in section, and on the inner is a chevron ; the inner arch has a bead on the edge, and the side arches are shown together with the others, in the accompanying representation. On the South face, the large arch has mouldings ; the inner arch is perfectly plain ; and the side arches are the same as the east one on the north face. The bell-gable, for the Sanctus bell, is built of a yellow coloured brick, very much the same as a clinker. The soffit is of wood supporting the pyramidical top. The roof, east of tower, is of thatch, pitched ; that to the west, of tiles. The walls, externally, consist of flint rubble-work, covered with rough-cast and whitewash. The Central Committee have the gratification again to express their acknowlcdg- iiienf and cordial thanlis for most vahiable assistance and enconragement sliown, on so many occasions, liy Mr. I'etit. The Members of the Institute will gratefully esteem the generosity by which a highly vahialde Monograj)h has been here presented to tiiem. The drawings and numerous engravings, which disjilay the instructive features of one of the most characteristic exani]ilcs of its period, in East Anglia, have been liberally presented to the Institute by Mr. Petit.