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By C. H. Talbot, Esq. 361 
execution of the details very good. The ornamental crestiug of the 
oriels appears to me inferior in its general design, and the execution 
of its details, and these portions may have been completed later, 
and by inferior hands. The great statues that occur at intervals on 
the parapet are later. additions, and detract from the effect of the 
building. 
Of Horningsham Church, and an old house near it, I can say 
‘nothing, not having visited that place with the other Members of 
the Society. 
In Sutton Veny the first building visited by the Society was the 
new church, a very successful work by Mr. Pearson. It has a stone 
vaulted chancel, and must rank amongst the finest churches in 
Wilts. If our old churches must disappear, wholly, or as in this 
instance in part, it reconciles one in a measure to the change to have 
them replaced by something that is really worth a visit. 
The Rectory house is of considerable interest, for its remains of 
the fourteenth century, Decorated work. The walls and roof of the 
hall remain, with some of its buttresses, and, at the back, one of 
the windows, but despoiled of its tracery. The original door is still 
the entrance, and on entering we fmd, on the right, the doors to the 
kitchen and buttery. I understand also that, by the side of these 
doors, remains were found of openings that had probably been 
hatches. Some window tracery of the same date, Flowing Decorated, 
has been found, and is now built into the face of the wall of some 
offices for preservation. 
The old Church of Sutton Veny has been partially taken down, 
and the remainder left as a ruin, the chancel only being kept in 
repair. In the north wall of the nave is a transition Norman door. 
,The church was cruciform, with a central tower, but without aisles. 
The tower piers are transition Norman, and the arches they support 
have an Early English look, but may perhaps be of the same date. 
On the tower piers occur ‘a number of small corbels, in the form of 
Norman cushion capitals. The north wall of the chancel is Early 
English, with lancet windows. The architectural features of the 
rest of the nave and transepts are mainly Decorated. 
The Parsonage Farm house, at Heytesbury, is a building whose 
