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portions, the first especially so, enclosed in a piece of ground, 
walled off, and which is still used as a burial place. The 
earliest part of the building is very late Norman, and a stone of 
that date, sculptured with vertical lines of nail head ornament, 
either the capital of a column, or more probably the base of a 
font, still exists in the churchyard. There are indications of 
early fourteenth century work, in the south wall of the chancel, 
where are the remains of a piscina and a doorway; other frag- 
ments of mouldings of the same date are scattered about in a 
wall, which forms the west boundary of the field, in which the 
ruin stands. This little church, that of St. Wilfrid of Gysnes, 
was given by Richard Tyson, the son of the standard bearer of 
the Conqueror, the first Norman Lord of Alnwick, to Alnwick 
Abbey, in the twelfth century, and is made the text of a very 
valuable essay on the family of Tyson and the heirs of his North- 
umberland fee, by Mr. Longstaffe.* 
Leaving Brainshaugh, the members walked, along the thickly 
wooded and picturesque banks on the north side of the Coquet, 
to Felton. During this route some interesting plants and 
insects were observed, but nothing which calls for particular 
notice. At Felton the church was visited, which is in a very 
bad state, and shows none of that care, arising froma true feeling 
for such buildings, which characterizes the present day. It is 
principally in the style called early English, and may date about 
1220. The nave is entered on the south side through a porch, 
which possesses its old stone ribbing. The north aisle is 
modern, and in very bad taste, the south aisle is separated from 
the nave by early English arches, and is lighted at the east end 
by a five lighted geometric window, which has evidently been 
brought from some other building, tradition says Brinkburn 
Priory. The head of this window is cut out of a single stone. 
The east window of the chancel is modern, and the south side is 
lighted by three original lancet windows, which are trefoil 
headed in the interior splay. There are the remains of lancet 
windows, now blocked up, at the west end of the nave. After 
leaving the church, the members, by the kindness of Mr. 
* Published in the Archzologia Aeliana, New Series, vol. III. p. 129. See another notice 
of the church by Mr, Seymour Bell, Archxologia Acliana, vol. IV. p. 1, 
