CONTENTS:—The Church Door—Sacrificial Foundations—The Building of the English Cathedrals—Ye Chapell of Oure Ladye—Some Famous Spires—The Five of Spades and the Church of Ashton-under-Lyne—Bells and their Messages—Stories about Bells—Concerning Font-Lore—Watching Chambers in Churches—Church Chests—An Antiquarian Problem: The Leper Window—Mazes—Churchyard Superstitions—Curious Announcements in the Church—Big Bones Preserved in Churches—Samuel Pepys at Church—Index. “An interesting and engrossing volume.”—_Church Bells._ “It consists of studies by various writers in the history, customs, and folk-lore of the Church of England. Whilst it will appeal most strongly to those who are given to antiquarian and ecclesiological inquiry, it contains much that should prove of interest to any intelligent reader. The various contributions give evidence of diligent and discriminating research, and embody much old-world lore that is curious and instructive.”—_Aberdeen Free Press._ The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc. EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS. _Demy, 7s. 6d. Numerous Illustrations._ CONTENTS:—Stave-Kirks—Curious Churches of Cornwall—Holy Wells—Hermit and Hermit Cells—Church Wakes—Fortified Church Towers—The Knight Templars: Their Churches and their Privileges—English Mediæval Pilgrimages—Pilgrims’ Signs—Human Skin on Church Doors—Animals of the Church in Wood, Stone, and Bronze—Queries in Stones—Pictures in Churches—Flowers and Rites of the Church—Ghost Layers and Ghost Laying—Church Walks—Westminster Waxworks—Index. “The book will be welcome to every lover of archæological lore.”—_Liverpool Daily Post._ “It is a work that will prove interesting to the clergy and churchmen generally, and to all others who have an antiquarian turn of mind, or like to be regaled occasionally by reading old-world customs and anecdotes.”—_Church Family Newspaper._ Transcriber's Notes Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected, including normalizing punctuation. Some index entries have been corrected to match the spelling and page numbers in the main text. Further corrections are listed below: p. 15 Autobiographic -> Autobiographical p. 50 May York -> May-York p. 54 peacable -> peaceable p. 54 Deliverences -> Deliverances p. 79 riends -> friends p. 98 there was a Trafford a priest -> there was at Trafford a priest p. 138 367 -> p. 367 p. 218 indentified -> identified Advertisements olk-lore -> folk-lore Footnote 1 Ley -> Levy End of Project Gutenberg's Echoes of old Lancashire, by William E. A. Axon