2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 14

THE RIGHT STONE FOR CHURCHYARD MONUMENTS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sus,—One point seems to have been overlooked by your correspondents, namely the legibility of inscriptions. In some Shropshire churchyards there are monuments formed of the beautiful local red sandstone, similar to that of which the church has been built, and there are also white marble monuments. On the latter the inscriptions are very legible. On the former, whether merely incised or leaded, they are usually illegible or only to be deciphered with difficulty.— I am, Sir, &c., E. R. KEsmort, Major-General. 75 St. Georges Road, S.W . 1.