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 142 REMARKS ON ST. MARYS CHURCH, OXFORD. the delicate fan groining of its roof It cannot be positively stated that this fan groining is of the same age as the part of the Church to Avliich it is attached, but there are indica- tions of contrivance in its adaptation to the present walls of the porch, which serve to show that it was once a portion of an earlier structure, and has been re-applied to the position which it now occupies. Flan of the Porch, showing the adaptation of the groining. Notwithstanding some variations in design, there does not appear to be any great difference in point of age between the several roofs of the various parts of the Church. Those of the nave and chancel are constructed with arched timbers, and that in the room over the old Congregation House has been finished in a superior style with moulded ribs and carved bosses. The ancient monumental remains of interest in the chancel are now limited to some slabs bearing inscriptions in Lom- bardic characters, the numerous gravestones having, with one exception, been entirely stripped of their brasses. But in St. Mary's Chapel there is an altar tomb which will never be passed without notice, by those who believe it to cover the honoured remains of Adam de Brome. R. n. Oxford, Juve •! 8, 1 (ioO. The Central Committee would gratefully acknowledge the kind liherality of the Author of the foregoing Memoir, in presenting several of the Illustrations by which it is accompanied.