@Hoolhope Naturalists’ Field Club. 
AvcGust 22np, 1882. 
EVN GLO N; CA MP. 
“*Go call a coach, and let a coach be called.” 
THE situation of Ivington Camp is so very secluded and so difficult of approach, 
that, in all the years of its existence, the Woolhope Club has never found it con 
venient to get there. It was resolved this year to visit it, and it was proposed to 
make the advance from Ford Bridge Station. The railway authorities, however, 
are just now so happy and contented with the crowds of travellers that fill their 
trains that they could neither set us down, nor pick us up, at any convenient time. 
The old ‘‘four-in-hand ” was resorted to, and the Club resolved to inspect the 
churches on the way, and here are the critical comments of the passers by :— 
Hotmer CHURCH was the first to be visited. It is dedicated to St. Bartho- 
lomew, and has the great peculiarity of a detached tower. There are six other 
churches in the county similarly circumstanced, those of Ledbury, Bosbury, Pem- 
bridge, Yarpole, Garway, and the neighbouring one of Marden was so originally. 
The lower portion of the square tower is stone work, upon which an upper story 
of timber and plaster was erected in the 16th century, to make room for the peal 
of five bells. The earliest bell bears the date 1609, with the inscription, ‘‘God 
bless our noball king Jamese,” and the tenor bell also bears this inscription : 
‘*My roaring sound doth warning give 
That men cannot here alwayes live.” 
The church itself has been well restored within the last few years by Mr. Seddon. 
It is early English in character, and above the average size. The roof is very 
good, with projecting hammer beams of excellent construction. The three small 
detached lancet windows in the chancel were filled with stained glass in 1865, to 
the memory of Mr. Charles Bulmer. The earliest entry in the existing register 
bears the date of 1712. There are the remains of an old stone cross in the church- 
yard, and the pretty churchyard should not be left without the remark that it 
was the first in the county to be decorated in the pleasant way now so common, 
and there were those present who could remember nearly 50 years back how the 
honeysuckles and roses flourished under the fostering care of that kind-hearted 
but eccentric lady the late Mrs. Pearce. 
Pipe anp LypEe CuuRCH was next visited. This church, with the exception 
of the chancel, was entirely rebuilt, at a cost of nearly £2,000, during the years 
1873-75. It was chiefly done under the personal superintendence of the late Vicar, 
the Rev. F. T. Havergal, and it is therefore scarcely necessary to state that it was 
