26 The Eleventh General Meeting. 
would suggest to them the propriety of employing good photo- 
graphers, to take views of all the most interesting objects of antiquity 
in the county. He should like to see other societies follow the 
same example, as by exchanging these photographic views, a great 
amount of antiquarian and archeological knowledge might be 
obtained. At present the information on such subjects was locked 
up in the local archeological journals, which no one ever saw out 
of their own county. They had a remarkable instance of the want 
of good photographs of such objects of interest in the church in 
which they were then assembled. For himself, he would travel 
fifty miles at any time to see such a valuable specimen of the best 
period of our ecclesiastical architecture. There could be no doubt 
that there were many other equally beautiful churches in this 
county, of the merits of which the public were profoundly ignorant. 
For himself, he wished that the beauties of: Wilts might become 
known to all England. 
Mr. G. Marcuam said that if the church was built as late as 
the time of Richard II. it might probably have been erected by 
William of Wykeham, as the bishops of Winchester were lords of 
the manor. 
Mr. Parker said that he was clearly of opinion that the archi- 
tecture was of the time of Edward III. He also observed that, if 
William of Wykeham built this church, it must have been when 
he was very young; as he was supposed to have introduced the 
Perpendicular style, and he certainly could find no vestige of that 
style in this edifice. The architecture was clearly that of the 
middle of the 14th century. The church was not later than the 
year 1360. 
Mr. Martcuam suggested that in out-of-the-way places the old 
style of architecture sometimes lingered after a new style came in, 
just as old fashions prevail in the provinces long after new fashions 
had been adopted in London. 
Mr. ParKER was quite aware that in some parts of Wilts and 
Somerset the old styles of architecture lingered for some time after 
new styles had been adopted. William of Wykeham, as the in- 
ventor of a new style, was least likely to have worked in the style 
