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windows, the easternmost being of three cinquefoiled lights; while on the northern side was one single light window, west of the screen, and one near the altar of two cinquefoiled lights, both square-headed. The eastern window in the chancel was of three cinquefoiled lights and monials moulded in one order, running up in the head into flowing tracery, of a graceful design common to many churches in this island. This window has been removed to the dependant chapel of Tref Gwalchmai. High up in the western gable was a squareheaded window of two ogee-headed trefoiled lights. to the southern door, and on the western side of it, was a small square hole pierced right through the wall; and in the eastern gable, on the northern side of the altar, was a stone bracket, or credence table, now used to support a poorbox near the door in the new church; no piscina nor stoup remained. All the workmanship of this building was of good character, and of the end of the fourteenth century. An inscription, not hitherto decyphered, was found in taking down the old church and has been carefully placed in the new church; we have given a plate of it. (Orientation, E. Invocation, St. Llwydian; + VII. Cent.-Fest. Nov. 19.)

LLANBEULAN.—This parish, to which are annexed several chapelries, contains only the church, of any mediæval remains; but this edifice, though small, and of rude workmanship, is valuable from its presenting several curious features. Like most of the churches in Anglesey, it has replaced an earlier building, the only traces of which now extant are some zigzag mouldings rudely carved, worked into the western wall, as imposts to the doorway; and the font. The church consists of a nave and chancel, with a chapel on the southern side of the former. The internal dimensions are, nave, twenty-four feet by fifteen feet six inches; chapel, fifteen feet six inches by eleven feet six inches; chancel, sixteen feet ten inches by thirteen feet. The whole building as it at present stands is of a decorated character. The walls, which are of loose construction, are two feet six inches thick on the average, eleven feet high, and terminated by a single bellgable at the western end. The site of the building is rocky and uneven, so that the altitude of the walls varies in different parts; and the whole affords a good idea of what was rather an important parochial church in a poor district in the fourteenth century - the probable epoch of its construc

tion. The nave is entered by a low circular-headed decorated door, under the western gable; a stone bench runs all round; it has a square-headed window of two lights on the northern side, and a modern single-light window on the southern. Underneath the latter stands the font, an unique specimen of the twelfth century, and of which a glyphographic view, by an amateur, is given below. Its dimensions are two feet one inch high by two feet eleven inches long, externally, and twenty-seven and a half inches by fifteen and a half inches internally, being eleven inches deep, with shelving sides, and thus affording ample room for immerging a child of three or four years of age. The workmanship of it is exceedingly rude; and the western end, not seen in the annexed view, is filled up with a chequer pattern. The side next the wall is plain, so that, probably, it always stood in a similar position to its present one. The cover is in oak, with the name of the donor, and the date- WILLIAM BOLD 1666— rudely carved on it. Above the font is a square hole in the wall.

eight feet six inches in span by nine feet in altitude to the intersection. In the eastern wall was once a circular-headed door-way, now blocked up, by the side of which a circularheaded decorated loophole still remains; and in the southern gable is a square-headed window of two lights. The chancel arch, which extends all across the chancel, is circular-headed, of a simply chamfered continuous moulding of one order, and is the only specimen of that curve being used in such a position in any building of this island of the decorated period. The eastern window is singularly rude and curious in design. Its dimensions are given in the annexed view.

In the northern wall is a loophole blocked up, and in the southern a square-headed two-light window, all of the decorated period. Few churches in this district have undergone so few alterations since the time of their erection; hence it is an interesting example to the architectural student. On the northern side of the altar is a stone commemorating Hugh Davis of Trefeibion Meyrick, Gent. + May 5. 1690. And there is a wooden seat bearing this

inscription, "The seate of William Bold of Treyrddol Esquire 1664."-Over the northern window of the nave is the inscription, "1637. T. G. RECT." At the south-eastern corner of the outside of the chapel is a large stone with a square hole in it for the base of the cross. (Orientation, N. E. by E.: Invocation, St. Peulan; +. VI. Cent-Fest. unkwnon.)

[A great number of highly interesting communications we have been obliged, unwillingly, to omit, partly from want of room, partly from their having been too late. This must be our apology. We reserve them for our next number.]

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Archeologia Cambrensis.

BEAUMARAIS, Nov. 16, 1845. SIR,-In June last a conversation took place, among some archæologists in this town, concerning the probable line of the Roman road from the station of Conovium, on the river Conwy, to Segontium, close to Caernarvon; and it was accordingly determined to make an expedition for the sake of visiting that portion of the line which lay between Conovium and Aber. There was every reason to suppose that Caer Rhun, on the Conwy, was the ancient Conovium; and it was also pretty evident, from the natural formation of the country, that the line must have come over the hills behind Penmaen Mawr, and that, when it once reached the low ground on the north western side of the Caernarvonshire mountains, it would run in a direct course to Segontium. I may here observe that we hope at a future day to verify the latter portion of the line to that town from Aber, for finding the direction of which we have several good indications. Our curiosity was the more excited on the present occasion because Pennant, that acute observer, had declared himself unable to determine its direction from Conovium, (vol. ii. p. 322). Upon examining his work more diligently, and upon comparing his observations with the ordnance map, we decided upon surveying, first of all, the western side of the hills, beginning at Penmaen Mawr; then to pass by Sychnant to Conwy, and afterwards to go over the line from Caer Rhun to the great pass of Bwlch y Ddwyfaen, by which alone we had previously conjectured we should find the Roman road running. In adopting this plan, we had the additional advantage of visiting all those remarkable British antiquities, which lie on Penmaen Mawr and its associated hills; and we were able to add the result of our own enquiries to Pennant's accurate information.1

The party consisted of James Dearden, Esq., F.S.A., the Rev. Dr. Jones, rector of Beaumarais, and myself,-accompanied by a guide; and we made our expedition on foot. We took a copy of Pennant with us, and verified his words on each spot, finding him always accurate, always well informed. No doubt he must have been fortunate in the selection of his guides, or in the meeting with persons who were acquainted from their youth with the spots he rambled over, so correct and so comprehensive are all his statements.

1 Pennant, vol. ii. pp. 306–309.