lowing, to the memory of the Rev. M. Becher, late master of the Free Grammar School, may gratify many of our readers, educated under him :

ingenium quod in illo fuit · felix · ac· limatum ·
Literasque minime vulgares ⚫

sed interiores illas et reconditas.

vitæ ac morum candida· simplicitas ·

morbo repentino abreptus⚫

I non jun. anno salutis MDCCCIX ætatis. XLV.

ob labores ejus · in · Pueritiam · informandam •

On the north side, near the west entrance, is the following:

To the memory of

THE REVD. EDWARD VALENTINE BLOMFIELD. M. A.

Fellow of Emanuel College Cambridge,

who died Oct. 9. 1816. Aged 28.

The happiest gifts of nature, highly cultivated by education, produced, in the subject of this pious tribute,

an union of all the amiable and excellent qualities, which at once endear the individual, and ennoble our species.

To classical attainments of the highest order, were added
the full possesion of several modern languages,
an intimate acquaintance with polite literature,
and a chastised taste, not unaccompanied with
practical skill, in the polite arts.

These accomplishments received the highest sanction
from the pure example of his life,

from the faithful discharge of his clerical duties,
from the faith, the hope, and the charity
of a sincere christian.

Erected by the companions of his youth.

Beneath is his profile, on one side of which is a scroll, inscribed, "Desiderium Porsoni," the other an appropriate device.

St. James's Church was repaired, and cleaned, in the early part of the year 1820, when a heavy, cumbersome gallery, ill according with the elegant light pillars which support the roof, was erected over the west entrance. It has a very good and powerful organ. The chancel, pulpit, &c. are distinguished by more than usual neatness, and the windows contain many beautiful specimens of stained glass, supposed originally to have ornamented the abbey church. If collected and arranged, these remains of ancient art would, together, form a window of great and striking interest.

THE SAXON TOWER.

The church gate, situated opposite to the west end of the abbey church, to which in ancient times it served as a magnificent portal, is considered to be one of the noblest specimens, of what is termed Saxon architecture, in the kingdom. It is 80 feet in height, of a quadrangular figure, and remarkable for the simple plainness and solidity of its construction. Its tower, though 30 feet distant from St. James's church, serves as a steeple to that edifice. In the space between the church and the gate, now occupied by a house, a chapel of Jesus was originally intended to stand. "The arches of this tower," observes Kirby, in The Suffolk Traveller, "are all round, of a Saxon form, and seem to be much older than Henry the III's time." Some are of opinion that the gate was erected in the reign of William the Conqueror, at the time that the abbey church was first built of stone. The material of which it is composed abounds with small shells, which, though in their natural state very brittle and perishable, have acquired such hardness, as to resist the injuries of several successive centuries, notwithstanding their exposure to the elements, by the decomposition of the softer portions of the stone. The eastern and western sides of the gate are, in their interior, supported by two large semicircular arches, which ad