BURYING IN CHURCH WALLS

MR. W. DURRANT COOPER has mentioned some instances of burials in the walls of churches; it is not however clear whether in these the monument, or coffin lid, is in the inside or the outside of the wall. Stone coffin lids, with and without effigies, are very frequently found placed under low arches hollowed in the wall in the *interior* of the church: tombs placed in the *exterior* of the wall are much less common; and the singularity of their position, leads one to look for some peculiar reason for it. Tradition often accounts for it by such stories as those mentioned by MR. COOPER. Such is th…