CROGLIN. Its very attractive modem church is in Norman style, as if to remind us that the Normans built a church here 800 years ago. The chancel when we called was gay with the flags of many nations hanging from the roof. The churchyard has two relics from the long ago, both much worn by wind and weather. One is a gravestone with a cross in relief, and with part of an inscription to a Bishop of Carlisle in the 13th century. The other is a badly weathered sculpture of a 14thcentury lady, her hands still clasped but her features gone. Older than either is a memory the village has of Richard ion heart, who gave some of its land to an old family as a reward for the bravery of one of them at the Siege of Jerusalem in the Third Crusade.

CROSBYONEDEN. It is High and Low Crosby, the one high up with a handful of farms sheltered by beeches, the lower one with the church. Both lie by the River Eden with views of the meadows and woods on the way to Carlisle. We can trace the Roman wall close by. Eight centuries after the Romans went away the Normans came and roughly carved the small square bowl of the font that has been much battered by the hand of Time; and eight centuries after the Normans there was cut down hereabouts a tree which was made into two pulpits. One of the pulpits is here in this small church of red sandstone. It is a square pulpit with panels admirably carved with pomegranates, wheat, and tines, an uncommon piece of craftsman ship keeping company with an equally fine oak lectern, on which is an angel with spread wings. The rest for the Bible is actually a canopy over a beautifully carved figure of the Good Shepherd.

The other half of the tree from which this pulpit was made was fashioned into a pulpit for Liverpool's new cathedral; we imagine that it would be the first pulpit made for the cathedral and we have seen it in the lady chapel there.

The church which has these treasures is still in its first century. Its nave windows are curious for having cutlass stars in the tracery. The memorial to Crosby men who did not come back is a triptych of oak from the training ship Britannia, with a copper cross from the same ship bearing bullet marks.

CROSSCANONBY. Half a mile from the coast of Allonby Bay, it has a little church built by the Normans, who used Roman stones in some of the walls. The 13th century builders added an aisle, opening from an arch which has a carved face each side and cuts through a Norman window at the top.

Most interesting are the stones which were standing as memorials before the Normans came. One is a hogback gravestone (shaped to imitate a little house of the dead). Of the others the best is a stone carved with a tall cross and a very crude human figure, thought to be St Lawrence, from the gridiron above his head. Among some fragments is part of a carved crossshaft of red sandstone.

The Norman font' has a square bowl strikingly sculptured with curling leaves and stems, and stands on pillars. There is fine old woodcarving in some of the new seats, and a collection of old tablets to the Senhouses who lived in Maryport, where their house Nether hall treasures a great collection of Roman things found close by. The little windows of an aged farmhouse overlook the churchyard, seeing among the graves a family stone full of human sadness.