Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
How to stain Deal (Vol. vii., p. 356).—If C. will apply by letter or otherwise to Mr. Henry Stevens, 54. Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, he will learn every particular, and be furnished with samples of its effect on common deal, as now very extensively used in churches, school-rooms, &c.
Detached Belfry Towers (Vol. vii., pp. 333. 416.).—Add to the list, Marston Morteyne in Bedfordshire, not far from Ampthill, and Gunwalloe, in Cornwall, about five miles south of Helston. Gunwalloe tower appears to be much older than the church, and faces the south-west angle of the nave, from which it is distant about fourteen feet.
J. M. B.
Tunbridge Wells.
Cambrensis has forgotten that the cloich teachs (bell-houses), or round belfries, peculiar to Ireland, and which have become famous as "round towers," are almost always separate from the churches.
James Graves.
Kilkenny.
To your instances of detached belfries in England add Magdalene College and New College in Oxford, and Woburn in Bedfordshire.