nly in the form of
foundations below ground. They are taken from a plan made in 1860
under the direction of Mr. Slater the architect, who was then carrying
out considerable alterations in the church. It is now in the
collection of the Society of Antiquaries. The southern apse was not
found by Mr. Slater, but is put in on the authority of Dr. J.H.
Middleton, who found evidence of it.--J.T.M.

THE SAXON CHAPEL.

[Illustration: _Photo. R.W. Dugdale._
THE SAXON CHAPEL.]

About eighty yards or so from the Church of St. Mary at Deerhurst was
discovered in 1885 in property known as _Abbot's Court_, a second
Saxon building. It was proved, after careful examination, that this
was a chapel, and the discovery of this fact threw considerable light
upon the inscribed stone in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, which had
been removed thither in 1675, bearing the inscription--

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| [cross] ODDA DVX IVSSIT HANC |
| REGIAM AVLAM CONSTRVI |
| ATQVE DEDICARI IN HONO- |
| R[=E] [=S] TRINITATIS PRO ANIMA GER |
| MANI SVI AELFRICI QVE DE HOC |
| LOCO ASS[=V]PTA. EALDREDVS VERO |
| E[=P][=S] QVI EAND[=E] DEDICAVIT II IDI |
| BVS A[=P][=L], XIIII AVT[=E] ANNOS REG |
| NI EADWARDI REGIS ANGLOR[=V]. |
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_I.e._ to say in English: "[Symbol: cross] Duke Odda ordered this
Royal Hall to be built and dedicated to the honour of the Holy Trinity
for the soul of his brother AElfric which was taken up from this place.
Bishop Ealdred it was who dedicated the same on the 12th April in the
14th year of the reign of Edward, King of the English."

[Illustration: _From "The Archaeological Journal."_]

This stone, of which a facsimile has been erected in this Saxon
chapel, was for many years assumed to refer to the larger church at
Deerhurst, but as soon as the smaller chapel was discovered, it was
seen that the inscription could only refer to that building. The
finding of a second stone, the dedication slab of an altar, in a
chimney-stack, also seemed to confirm the idea that the building, with
its nave, its chancel arch, and its chancel, was the chapel dedicated
in 1056 by Earl Odda.

[Illustration]

The dedication stone has been mutilated by being converted into the
topmost portion of a window, and th