THE ANCIENT CHANTRY OF MILTON [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On behalf of the Gravesend Borough Library, supported by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and many others, I venture to ask for the courtesy of your columns to make an appeal for funds towards the reconstruction of a fine example of fourteenth-century work for the purpose of establishing a museum and library of local history.
The building is the ancient Chantry of Milton, at present enclosed in the New Tavern Fort at Gravesend. If dates at the latest from the early fourteenth century, and its impor- tance as a museum can scarcely be exaggerated. The Graves- end Library Committee have already collected some thousands of museum exhibits ; the Gravesend Corporation is under- taking to provide the funds necessary for the maintenance of the building as a museum. Any subscriptions to the fund will be gratefully acknowledged by Councillor R. McGregor, Hon. Treasurer, Public Library, Gravesend, or by the under-
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