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NOTES AND QUERIES. L io s. vm. NOV. is, 1907.

LONDON REMAINS (10 S. viii. 226, 271 337). Besides the chancel screen from Allhallows the Great, mentioned at the las reference, the pulpit and sounding-board the sanctuary rails, and the fine bras candelabra are also, by the munificence o Canon Ingram, at St. Margaret's, Lothbury To St. Michael, Paternoster Royal, went th organ case, the stone statues of Moses anc Aaron, formerly part of the All Hallows reredos, and the curious figure of Charity from the front of the organ gallery ; whil the very beautiful carved Communion tab! is now in the parish church of Allhallows North St. Pancras.

The iron gates in front of DevonshireHouse in Piccadilly were removed from the Duke's place at Chiswick in 1897. They originally belonged to Lord Heathfield, and formed the entrance to his house at Turnham Green When this property was broken up in 1837 the then Duke purchased them. At Chis wick they took the place of a much older gate, still standing in another part of the grounds, which came from Sir Hans Sloane' house in Chelsea, and bears two inscrip- tions : " Builded by Inigo Jones, MDCXXI." and " Given by Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, to the Earl of Burlington, MDCCXXXVII."

The large brick alcove now standing with its back to the Bayswater Road, opposite the fountains in the north-west corner of Kensington Gardens, formerly stood in the extreme south-west corner, with its back to the Kensington Road, and facing the gravel walk leading to the south side of the Palace.

When old Cumberland Gate in Hyde Park was pulled down in 1822, the great gates were purchased by a Mr. Baker, of the Clock House Farm at Cricklewood, and he fitted them into his barn, where they re- mained for seventy years. Three years later, when Tyburn turnpike was removed, he bought the clock turret which sur- mounted the house and placed that also on his barn. In addition, he bought the veritable gate which spanned the Bayswater Road from the south-east corner of Edgware Road, and hung it at the entrance to his premises as the ordinary farm-yard gate. After a time it was found to be incon- veniently heavy, so it was removed, and placed inside the barn. The old barn was pulled down early in 1892, and its site is now occupied by the back gardens of Nos. 8 to 11, Chaddesden Parade. It would be interesting to know whether these relics are still in existence.

ALAN STEWART.

The statement on p. 338 that Decimus Burton's Arch "stood from 1828 until 1883 immediately opposite Apsley House ' ' is not quite accurate.

I knew it well, and was on the top of it when the statue was being lowered. It never was opposite Apsley House, but stood in a line with the centre arch of Burton's handsome screen, far to the south-west of Apsley House. And a thousand pities it is that it was ever moved to its present awkward and meaningless position, when it could, with little ingenuity, have remained where it was an ornament.

WILLIAM ROYLE.

The great clock bell of St. Paul's possesses the peculiarity of sounding different notes from different positions and distances. The architect who superintended its recasting must have forgotten to provide a section ; consequently it is straight - waisted, which accounts for its uncertain sound. All the curves in the section of a bell should be sections of a cone, and of the same cone. Probably the architect had forgotten to read his Vitruvius, who shows that an architect must not be music-deaf.

WALTER SCARGULL.

I do not know if it is matter of any in- terest, but a large number of the balus- trades of old London Bridge, removed t>y Sir Edward Banks, one of the con- tractors, are erected round a fountain in lis grounds at Bankstown, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey. As a boy, in the early thirties, [ remember them very well.

G. C. WARDEN.

With reference to MR. PIERPOINT'S inquiry about Queen Anne's statue (ante, p. 338), ! may say that the statue was obtained rom the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's >y Mr. Augustus Hare, who placed it in a "eld just below his garden at Holmhurst, n Sussex, where I saw it four years ago. t is probably there now unless his heirs lave removed it. F. F. K.

COLLEGE HERALDIQUE DE FRANCE (10 S. iii. 368). MRS. HALL may assume it to be

private venture, as France could hardly

maintain a "public institution " on behalf of

hat which it does not recognize. Provincial

ibrarians and archaeologists keep up the

cience of blason. See Bodley, ' France,'

ol. i. pp. 168, &c., and vol. ii. pp. 353, &c.

first edition), or, in index, ' Titles ' and

Noblesse.' D.