to the Channel Islands almost immediately after its perusal--can fail to detect in this building quite a number of _criteria_ that are there set out as indicating, at any rate in England, a pre-Conquest era of building. Unfortunately I have kept no note of these features, but the impression then made on my mind is vivid. I may, of course, be wrong; but it seems to me at least possible that we have here the solitary survivor--far older than the Fishermen's Chapel at St. Brelade's in Jersey--of those many chapels that are known to have been built in the Channel Islands in the eighth and ninth centuries by the successors of St. Magloire. [Illustration: THE COUPÉE, SARK. A romantic and almost terrifying pathway among the precipitous rocks of the island.] The other point of interest in the neighbourhood of L'Erée is the rocky islet of Lihou, approached by a causeway across the sands, or more properly the rocks, but only at low tide. Here are the scanty fragments of the Priory and Chapel of Notre Dame de la Roche, apparently a cell to the monastery of Mont St. Michel, which seems to have had so much to do with the spiritual matters of the Channel Islands. The tide at St. Michael's Mount is said to rush up across the level sands more quickly than the fleetest horse can gallop, and visitors to Lihou will be well advised to remember that here again its onset is unexpected and swift. At L'Erée village is another dolmen, the Creux des Fées, to which passing allusion has already been made. St. Peter's Church in this neighbourhood--in full, St. Pierre du Bois--is perhaps the handsomest, though not necessarily the most interesting, of all the twelve churches in the island, and exhibits some Flamboyant work of a very pleasing character. CHAPTER III ALDERNEY, SARK, AND THE LESSER ISLANDS