the 29th day of July, anno dom'i 1621, æt an'o regni reigis vicæcimo primo annoquæ ætus circa 180; he was a sowdier in the fights of Bosworthe, and lived at Llantwitt Major, and he lived by much fishing."

Llanmihangel House is situated on a hill-side close to the church, which lies in the valley below.

Llanmihangel Church.-The plan of the church consists of a nave, chancel, and south porch. At the time of the visit of the Association it was undergoing restoration by Mr. F. R. Kempson, F.R.I.B.A., who formed one of the party, and explained the architectural details of the building. The tower is of military character, with cross loopholes, and has a saddle-back roof. The old cradle-roof of the nave still remains. The design of the principals is different in the portion above the rood-loft. The font has an octagonal bowl on a circular stem, and is devoid of ornament. There is a curious effigy outside the church at the east end.

The water of the well near the church flows through the breasts of a woman's bust, sculptured in relief upon a slab of stone.

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Sculptured Bust, St. Anne's Well, Llanmihangel.
An inch and a half scale.

The next place on the programme was Llantwit Major, two miles south of Llanmihangel. Here an address was delivered in the churchyard by Mr. J. Romilly Allen, on the inscribed and sculptured crosses, which will be published, with illustrations, in a future number of the Archeologia Cambrensis.

Llantwit Major Church.-At least twelve churches in Wales are dedicated to St. Iltyd; but all these sink into insignificance when

compared with Llan Iltyd Fawr, or the church of St. Iltyd. From the fifth century to the present day this place has been associated with the varying fortunes of the Welsh Church; and from the College founded here by St. Iltutus a noble army of saints went forth to pursue their missionary labours in Brittany, Wales, and Cornwall, making the name of the Glamorganshire village whence they came a household word throughout Celtic Christendom. Nothing now remains of the structures or monuments of the earliest period; the crosses in the churchyard being of the ninth century, and no part of the present buildings older than the twelfth century. Nevertheless, an indescribable air of antiquity seems to pervade the whole place, and one feels almost intuitively that one is standing on holy ground, hallowed by thirteen centuries of pious devotion. The church lies in a hollow, with a flight of steps leading down into the churchyard from the road. The path along the south side is paved right up to the building, and a stone seat against the wall affords an opportunity to rest and contemplate the curious graves, covered with water-worn quartz pebbles. The photograph here reproduced was taken before the recent restoration. It will be noticed how much better the small slates of the old roof look than the larger ones, with which the whole is now covered. The reason of this is, that the lines of overlapping of large thin slates are so straight and fine that they give no variety to the surface, the appearance of "texture" produced by the closely packed undulating lines of small slates being entirely wanting. The folly of destroying the picturesqueness of the old roof by using large slates was very clearly put before the committee for the restoration by the gentleman who reported on the work on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. As is usual in such cases, the socalled practical man on the committee succeeded in persuading his colleagues that artistic considerations should be treated with the contempt they deserve.

The architectural peculiarities of Llantwit church have been a great puzzle to antiquaries. Mr. E. A. Freeman's views on the subject have been expressed in a paper in the Archæologia Cambrensis (vol. iv, Ser. 3, p. 31). The plan consists of a nave, with north and south aisles, and tower at the west end; chancel; a second western church, now disused, having a south porch; and further west again is a ruined building, which has been conjectured to be a Galilee or large western porch, with a sacristan's house on the north side. The oldest portion of the church comprises the nave with its aisles and the chancel. The details of the capitals of the arches under the tower are Early English. The three original cusped lancet windows remain in the north wall of the chancel. The windows in the aisles belong to the end of the thirteenth century, when tracery was just beginning to develop. As examples of the simplest kind of tracery, consisting of two cusped lancets and a circle under a pointed hood moulding, they are very instructive. A window of the same class is to be seen at