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180 ]80 PEOCEEDINGS AT MEETINCfS OF vaulted chancel." An engraving of the font was executed for Mr. Thorpe's " Registruni Roffense ;" and it has also been represented, with a fair degree of accuracy, in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1837. I3y Mr. Edward Richardson. — A drawing, of the original size, represent- ing a diminutive cofBn-slab of Purbeck marble, of unusual form, being curved, instead of square, at the head. The dimensions are, — length, 21 in. ; width, at head, 9 in. ; at foot, 51 in. ; thickness, 3^ in. (See woodcut.) The upper surface was so decayed as to preclude the possibility of ascer- taining whether it had borne a cross or other ornament. Around the edge runs a curved moulding, of Early English character, in depth 2 in., and in UTTINCS' Miniature Cross-slab and Stone Coffin found at Old Shureliam. width I in. Tliis little slab had been recently dug up in the churchyard at New Shoreham, in forming a grave near the N.E. corner. The sexton informed Mr. Richardson that remains of rubble walling, of great strength, still existed in that part of the churchyard, at no great depth, possibly the vestiges of a sepulchral chapel or carnaria. They are quite distinct from the old foundations of the nave. The rounded form is peculiixr : an early example, with guilloehe ornaments, was found in Cambridge Castle, and is represented in the Archaeologia.' Mr. Franks observed that another exists at Loddon, Noifolk. •"' Archaeologia, vol. viii., p. 2'.V2. '• Vol. xvii., p. 'JJfJ. Sec .also BouteU'.s Cin-istian MomiiiKiits, p. !i.