the present north aisle was added and the chancel rebuilt with a certain amount of old work. The sedilia are three old stalls from the monastic choir, and the altar slab is ancient. By the kind permission of the Bishop of Southwell, the members were enabled to see the remains of the western range, now forming cellars to the palace, after which the drive was continued to Nottingham.

At the evening meeting, Mr. E. W. Brabrook being in the chair, the Rev. A. D. Hill read the following paper on "Some Ancient Carved Stones in Calverton Church, Notts":

The church of St. Wilfred, Calverton, appears to have been entirely rebuilt in the thirteenth or fourteenth century out of old material, and consists of a chancel, a nave of the somewhat unusual form of a wide parallelogram 42 feet 8 inches long and 37 feet 2 inches wide, of one span and with no traces of any arcades, and a western tower forming the only entrance to the church.

The chancel arch is not in the centre of the east wall of the nave, but about 5 feet nearer to the north side. It is a plain thirteenth century arch of two chamfered orders, but it rests on older jambs of Norman work with triple-grouped shafts, the easternmost shaft forming a respond imbedded in the chancel wall. The width between the jambs is 14 feet 4 inches, which with the non-central position of the arch seems to suggest that it has been widened northwards. The abacus is square, with a hollow chamfer beneath. The long capitals are irregularly fluted and ornamented with volutes, between which on the north side there is a small square panel with incised sculpture which I shall describe fully hereafter.

The walls of the nave have been refaced externally above the lower courses and finished off with a battlemented parapet at a late period; and no doorways or windows remain of the older work, excepting a Norman double roll moulded arch rebuilt inside one of the belfry windows, as the church received its final embellishment of a complete set of round-headed windows in 1763. A porch, organ chamber and mullioned windows were added to the nave in 1881 and 1889.

In the chancel walls and lower courses of the nave the worked surface of Norman stones is to be seen, and a number of stones with incised patterns of the older work have been re-used in various places.

Of these re-used stones the most interesting are to be found high up in the third stage of the tower, imbedded as a horizontal course in the inner face of the west wall, and bearing representations of the various occupations of the months of the year.

Despised by the re-builders, one at least of the masons at work upon the church felt a tender regard for these old carved stones, for he has built into his work, where few would see and none would injure them, eight of the pictured representations which perhaps had served to instruct his dull wit and inspire his strong right hand in the old church of his boyhood. Seven of these stones are roussoirshaped, and must have formed part of a band of ornament 9 inches wide on the architrave of an arch with a radius of about 5 feet to their outer edge. The eighth stone has parallel sides, and may have formed part of a vertical continuation of the same band down the jambs of the arch. A ninth stone, also rectangular, is to be seen near the ground in the outer north side of the tower. Each panel has its own border, and a semi-circular arch of the above dimensions world

give room for the twelve months with interspaces which may have horne the signs of the zodiac, as in the Norman porch of St. Margaret's, York, in which, I may add, there is evidence of a thirteenth month, according to the Saxon calendar in common use at that period.

Similar representations are to be fouud upon three sides of a stone font at Burnham Deepdale in Norfolk, Archaeologia, X (1792), at St. Evroult, Montfort; and also upon a leaden font at Brookland, Kent, described in Arch. Jour., VI (1849), and again beautifully illustrated in an article on leaden fonts by Dr. Fryer in Vol. LVII (1900). The whole subject of mediaeval representations of the months and seasons has been exhaustively treated by Mr. James Fowler in Archaeologia, XLIV.

The Calverton stones afford but an incomplete series of the months, but the resemblance to the smaller figures on the fonts is so remarkable that there can be little doubt that they are of the same period and may probably be referred to some common origin such as the Anglo-Saxon calendars. This resemblance enables us to identify the subjects before us.

No. 1, January, is represented by a man seated at a trestle table which groans beneath the good cheer of a boar's head and a goose on flat round dishes, a loaf, and a flagon curiously inadequate to replenish the enormous drinking horn which the feaster holds in his right hand. His left arm rests on the table, and the hand holds a knife. His hawk, which I take to be an indication of rank, stands on the edge of the table. (Plate I.)

No. 2, February, chill and raw, is humorously illustrated by a man in a hooded cloak and sleeved tunic, seated on a low chair with scroll back and arms, and stretching out his left hand and heavily booted feet to the warmth of a crackling fire kindled out-of-doors beneath a tree, evidently an evergreen. His favourite bird is also enjoying the blaze regardless of the danger to his feathers. (Plate I.)

No. 3. Here is a man engaged in pruning a tree or vine with a large knife. At Brookland this subject is allotted to March, and at Burnham to April. In these agricultural subjects we no doubt see the Saxon labourers of the country at work.

No. 4. This is a man holding in both hands an implement which may be a hoe or a crook stick, which he seems to be using among growing crops. At first this was supposed to represent ploughing, but on cleaning away some mortar the upright portion appeared to represent a plant. In the Burnham figure for June we have a man engaged in weeding with two sticks, the one in the left hand having a crook, an operation which is seen again, among thistles, in fifteenth century stained glass in the Mayor's parlour at Leicester.

No. 5, August, is represented by a man stripped to the waist reaping corn with a sickle. A neatly banded sheaf stands upright behind him. We may notice the broad-brimmed hat, similar to those worn in the summer months of July and August by mower and reaper on the Brookland font. (Plate I.)

Nos. 6 and 7.-These two stones, each containing a separate panel, seem nevertheless to belong to a single month, September, and represent two men threshing corn with flails.

No. 8.-This is a larger rectangular stone 9 inches by 13 inches which does not fit into the series of months and which I suggest may