. The Archaeological journal. fairly assign a middle date to thisexample at Quenington, and may claim it as the workof the reign of King Stephen, with ^^-hich period theother architectural details well accord. During the Norman period we also find examples ofthis subject with slight variations in the treatment onthe tympana at Shobdon and Beckford already referredto,^ on a large stone coffin lid preserved in the ChapterHouse at Bristol Cathedral, on another coffin lid let intoa niche over the south doorway of South CerneyChurch, Gloucestershire, and on a stone inserted abovethe north doorwav o
. The Archaeological journal. fairly assign a middle date to thisexample at Quenington, and may claim it as the workof the reign of King Stephen, with ^^-hich period theother architectural details well accord. During the Norman period we also find examples ofthis subject with slight variations in the treatment onthe tympana at Shobdon and Beckford already referredto,^ on a large stone coffin lid preserved in the ChapterHouse at Bristol Cathedral, on another coffin lid let intoa niche over the south doorway of South CerneyChurch, Gloucestershire, and on a stone inserted abovethe north doorwav of Jevino;ton Church, Sussex. J. Eoiuilly Allen, J£nrlij Chriaiian ^ A List of Nonnau Tjimpana and Symbolism, p. 281, Fig. 100. Lintels toith Figure or Si/mhohcal - Archaeol. Jovrn., XX\, p. 16, Fig. Sculpture, still, or till recenlli/, existing 13. in the Churches of Great Britain, by Associated Architect. Soc. R(jjorts, Charles E. KcTser, , , Mil, p. 288, Fig. 13. p. Iv, Figs. 95 aridSO. To /act piii IftT Plate •yCLoi/^ SHORTHAMPTON CHAPEL AND 1X8 WALL-1AIXTIX(;S/By PHILIP MAINWARINa JOHNSTON. Shortliampton is a chapelry attached to tlie ijarisli o\Charlbury, Oxfordshire, from which town it is distantbetween tw^o and three miles. The tie is one of earlydate, for we have work of the twelfth century remainin*-in the mother church and the chapel.^ The Manor of Charlbury^ belonged to the MercianKings, and was granted at some time during the tentlicentury to the Bishop of Lincoln, and in 1109, BishopRobert Bloet handed it over to the Abbey of E3nshani, entire and untouched in woods and fields and meadowsand waters, including, no doubt, the hamlets known asChadlington and Shorthampton. Whether there werethen in existence chapels at either or both of theseplaces it is now impossible to say, but it is certain thatthose now standing were built by the wealthy Benedic-tine abbey to serve the needs of its tenants. The Cartulary of Eynsham preserves the earliestreference t
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