Early in the past year your Council received a suggestion 

 from the Burton-on-Trent Society that a joint expedition should 

 be held during the Summer at some locality within easy access 

 of the two Societies. The Burton Society was infonned that 

 the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society would 

 gladly comply %vith this suggestion, and the Church Broughton 

 neighbourhood was named as a suitable centre. The Burton 

 Society having already arranged its meeting for May, it was 

 not possible to fix the combined meeting before the Autumn, 

 and September i8th was the date decided upon. On that day 

 the members of our Society left Derby via Great Northern 

 Railway, at 1.22 p.m., for Tutbury, whence they were conveyed 

 in brakes to the church of Church Broughton. Here they were 

 received by the vicar, the Rev. \Vm. Auden, who conducted 

 them over the church and pointed out the objects of interest. 

 Mr. Auden gave a very carefully prepared and most interesting 

 address, tracing the history of "Kirk" Broughton from the 

 earliest times, its connection with the Priory of Tutbury, the 

 bestowal, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, both of the 

 manor and the impropriate rectory upon Sir William Cavendish. 

 In 1845-6 this church suffered from a "repairing" and re-pewing 

 which would seem to have necessitated raising the floor level 

 about eighteen inches, with the consequent concealment and 

 part destruction of the bases of the Norman pillars. Happily 

 there has since been a careful and conservative " restoration," 

 with the result that the church now stands a good example of 

 the way in which a church's history may be read in its architec- 

 ture when care is taken to preserve, and not, as is often the 

 case, to remove all that is characteristic. The special features 



