Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 23: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past; January June The tower of the fine cruciform church of St. Michael and All Angels, Lambourn, a little town in the midst of the Berkshire Downs, has become so seriously insecure from a settlement of the supporting arches, that, unless something is speedily done, a catas tr0phe may at any time occur. It was originally a low Norman tower, but an extra story was added by the Perpendicular architects, a weight which was too much for the arches to carry, and this, together with undermining the foundations by digging graves close to the footings, has had a result which might have been expected. The tower has, in fact, been mainly kept in its place for more than a century by massive balks of oak timber inserted as a help to the masonry, and is braced all round the outside by iron straps. Mr. Gilbert Scott and Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.