on a cylindrical stem, with band round it, and a square plinth. There is a stone bench round the tower. The tower is lofty, and tapers, and is not square, having a battlement and a corbel-table, but no buttresses. There is a square turret at the south-east. The lofty windows are slits, and there are a few others in the tower. There is an ugly reredos, and the sacrarium is laid with marble.

NASH (ST. MARY).

August 4, 1871. This church seems to have been wholly rebuilt, except that some portions of the original walls may remain. The walls are partially slated. It is a plain oblong building with square-headed windows and a

modern bellcot at the west end. In the churchyard is a fine sepulchral effigy of a knight,' neglected and overgrown with moss, with helmet of fifteenth century, and his hand on his sword. There is also an old font with square bowl.

UPTON,

August 4, 1871. This small chapel, belonging to the castle, but not forming a part of it, is an ancient building, the exte

1 Arch. Camb., 4th Series, vol. xii, p. 245.

2 Of Upton Castle the entrance remains, between two bastions with machicolations. Much of it is modernised, and occupied as a dwelling-house.

rior of which is much mantled with ivy, having a nave and chancel worthy of notice, though disused for divine service, and much out of condition. The chancel-arch is a small obtuse one. The windows are mostly modern, save a narrow single one on the south of the chancel. The north wall is original, the south side is modernised. The font' has a square bowl scolloped, on circular stem.

There are three good sepulchral remains. On the north of the nave a fine Perpendicular tomb, paneled with flattened ogee canopy having foliation, rich and flanking pinnacles, which are charged with two tiers of niches containing small statues. On the tomb is the recumbent effigy of a knight in armour of the fifteenth century. In the chancel, on a flat stone, is the head of a priest with a floriated cross running

Arch. Camb., 4th Ser., vol. xi, p. 295.

along the slab, and inscription. On the north of the sacrarium, under a canopy, is a fine effigy of a lady, well preserved, having reticulated headdress and kirtle.'

PWLLCROCHAN (ST. DECUMANUS).

August 5, 1871.

The church is supposed to have been erected by Redulph Benyer in the fourteenth century, whose effigy is in the south transept, under a recess, inscribed"Hic jacet Redulphus Benyer, hujus ecclesia." Another inscription runs: "Erat iste ecclesia constructa de novo, cum capella ista per Redulphum Benyer qui rexit ecclesiam per annos. A.D. 1342." This is in the north transept. This church is of a kind frequent in South Pembrokeshire, and consists of a nave and chancel, a north transept, and a tower in the place of a south transept, and crowned by a stone spire. There is a south porch, now closed and used as a vestry. The arches to the tower and transept are remarkably flat, and there is an original vestry north of the chancel opening by a flat arch, and having a square-headed

1 Above the tomb known as the Malefant tomb there has been recently found, under whitewash, a coat of arms, thus described: charge on first,-argent, a chevron between three martlets sable; 2nd, barry of ten gules azure and sable, a chief or; 3rd, lion rampant (?), very indistinct; 4th, same as 1st. In the wall on the north side of the chancel-arch is a stone candelabrum in the form of a hand and wrist, jutting out about a foot. (Arch. Camb., 4th Ser., vol. xii, p. 241.)

two-light labeled window. The chancel has a lancet, now closed, set at the south-west as a lychnoscope. The chancel-arch is pointed, and very plain. There is a magnum sedile in the chancel on the south. On the north of the nave is an original door with pointed arch. The tower is quite of the local type, lofty and rude, with embattled parapet, under which is a corbeltable, and neither stringcourse nor buttress. There is a square-headed window in the tower, Perpendicular, of two lights. The belfry windows are plain singlelancets. The spire is octagonal, and perfectly plain, without ribs, and there are small oilet openings in the battlement. The chancel has no windows on the south. The west window is a new one.1

RHOSCROWTHER (ST. MARY).

August 5, 1871.

An interesting specimen of the South Pembrokeshire church, comprising nave, north transept, chancel with south chapel, north and south porches, and tower on the south side in place of a transept. There is also an odd chapel on the south of the nave near the west, at first sight looking like a porch. The whole is in decent order, and the roofs have been renewed and covered with, slates. The tower is of really fine masonry, resembling that of Pwllerochan, but is surmounted, instead of a spire, with embattled parapet and four pinnacles. The tower is undivided by stringcourses, and has no buttresses, but a plain projection at the south-west. There is a corbel-table under the parapet; the belfry-windows are single on the north and south, double on the east and west, all obtusely pointed. The pinnacles are rather poor. A Decorated two-light window is inserted in the tower. The tower has a stone vault, and the lower part is open to the nave by a plain pointed arch, and the staircase opens

1 North porch built in 1882. Spire unfortunately much damaged by the gale of December 8, 1886. Dedication in Rees, St. Mary ; perhaps here confused with Rhoscrowther, which is near.

internally by a plain door. Between the tower and south chancel-aisle is a low flat arch. A similar arch opens to the north transept, which also is vaulted. The chancel-arch is a narrow one set in much wall, and on each side of it is a pointed arch of hagioscopic kind, but dissimilar. The nave has a bell-cot over its east end. The nave has a new west window of three lights and Decorated character. The north transept has a plain window of two trefoil heads, and a squint occupying the angle to the chancel. In this transept is a tomb of the seventeenth century, under a flat

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Pewter Chalice found at Rhoscrowther Church, Pembrokeshire.

arch. The porch is very large, and resembles a transept; it is charged with some heraldic shields, and has a plain obtuse arch, a plain vault and a triangular stoup, and a statue over the door. The chapel on the south side has a pointed recess in its east wall, and another-perhaps a piscina-in its south wall; also an oblong recess at the north-east, and a rude pointed arch into the nave.

The chancel has no window on the north; on the south, two of Decorated character of two lights; at the east is a window of two lights, which is poor