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saved from an ancient room adjoining the Law Courts at Westminster, when the latter were demolished in 1883. It was placed in its present position when the State rooms at the Palace were restored in 1899.

The leaden lion, the crest of the Percies, which stood for 125 years high above the

gorch of Northumberland House in the trand, so wantonly destroyed in 1874, now occupies a similar position at Syon House.

The stags which have for many years adorned the piers at Albert Gate originally stood on either side of the entrance in Picca- dilly to the Ranger's Lodge in the Green Park.

Decimus Burton's Arch, now at the top of Constitution Hill, stood from 1828 until 1883 immediately opposite Apsley House, and was surmounted by the huge statue of the Duke of Wellington, now at Aldershot.

The destruction and alteration of churches has caused many valuable articles of church furniture to change their habitat.

The pulpit now at Christ Church, New- gate Street, was in use at the Temple Church until the restoration of the latter in 1842.

The elegant white-marble font from St. Michael's, Queenhithe (destroyed 1876), is now at the new church of St. Michael, Cam- den Road, which was erected out of a por- tion of the proceeds of the sale of the City site, and much of the carved woodwork from the interior of the same church is now translated into screens at the back of the choir stalls at St. James's, Garlick Hill.

Much of the exquisite woodwork from Allhallows the Great, Thames Street (demo- lished in 1895), including the noble chancel- screen presented by the Hanse merchants in the seventeenth century, now adorns St. Margaret's, Lothbury.

The reredos from St. Matthew's, Friday Street (pulled down in 1885), was included in the sale, in November, 1904, of the Her- komer School of Art at Bushey, and fetched 6301. ; but I do not know what has become of it. ALAN STEWART.

Was not the final cause of the removal of the old statue of Queen Anne from the space in front of St. Paul's its mutilation by a lunatic ? If I remember rightly, the nose or one of the arms was knocked off perhaps the nose and one of the arms. Of what stone was the statue ? and what has become of it ?

Under the above heading it may be interesting to note that the two painted figures which used to form the sides of the doorway of the Egyptian Hall are now, or

were quite recently, in a dealer's garden in Marylebone Road, at or near the corner of Quebec Street. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

A large part of the columns which supported the colonnade, formerly the frontage of the Quadrant, Regent Street, are incorporated in the buildings forming the Grand Stand on the Epsom race-course.

Two are also built into the verandah of the house in the same town, the scene of the "wicked" Lord Lyttelton's death, as to which the supernatural warning was once so stoutly believed. W. C. J.

The country house in North Kent referred to as being built (front only, I presume) from the stones of old London Bridge is. known as Ingress Abbey at Greenhithe. It was built by Alderman Harmer, proprietor of The Weekly Dispatch. The lawn in front is the only piece of green for miles up and down the river.

Some years ago it was taken by a charit- able institution, I understood; but 'Kelly's Directory for Kent ' 1907, p. 349, says it is now unoccupied. RALPH THOMAS.

May I add to the examples given the two- following instances ?

The iron gate of the enclosure in which was the plague pit at Fulham was purchased by Mr. James Farmer of Ifield, and now does duty as an entrance to on of his plantations.

The gate for so many years adorning the residence of John Tradeseant in South Lambeth, which was occupied for a series- of years by Mr. James Thorne (now of Tooting), and known during that period as Turret House, became the property of the late Mr. William Young, of Charlwood,. and was erected by him as the principal entrance to a large walled garden.

F. CLAYTON. Morden.

PANTON PROFESSORSHIP (10 S. viii. 231). The founder was Miss Kathrein Panton of Fraserburgh. Her trust disposition and settlement is recorded in the Books of Council and Session, 20 Jan., 1823. The capital there amounted to 1,1611., and is now (as stated in ' The Year-Book of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ') about 8.500Z. The income is applied in providing a stipend for the Pantonian Professor in the Theological College, Coates Hall, Edinburgh, and bur- saries to students of theology. The Scottish* bishops are the trustees.

J. N- HERFORD..