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After leaving Brinsop Cnnrt, the journey was continued to Wormesley 

 church — situated upon a knoll on the left .it a distance of about three hundred 

 yards from the main road, after passing the seventh milestone from Hereford. 

 About half way upon this route from the road to the Church, traces of the long- 

 disused old British road proceeding down the hill to the left were observed. 



Wormesley Church, a small structure, rebuilt in 1S7G, consists of nave, 

 chancel, with chancel arch, south porch, and an ancient bell-turret on the west-end 

 for two bells. Several of the small Norman and Early English deeply splayed 

 windows remain. The south door to the porch is Norman, with a plain square 

 headed tympanum under a semi-circular arch. The north door of the nave is 

 walled up. Another walled up door, near to the chancel arch, evidently formed 

 an entrance to a side chajjel or vestry now entirely demolished ; near this is a 

 stone bracket built into the wall, having the ball-flower ornament carved on its 

 surface ; it was probably one of the brackets placed at each side of the altar. On 

 the chancel floor is an early 14th century coffin slab, with a simple incised 

 floriated cross on its surface. The font is Norman, a plain bowl in the form of an 

 inverted truncated cone upon a plain base. On the south side of the churchyard 

 are the remains of the old cross, consisting of an octagonal base and square plinth, 

 the shaft and cross absent. The Vicar, the Rev. R. Remington, informed the 

 members that in digging upon the south-east side of the churchyard, foundations 

 are met with — probably the house for the priest. 



The Priory is situated one mile west of the Church, close to and adjoining 

 the present house called The Grange ; no remains of the ancient building are now 

 in existence. The Priory was founded during the reign of King John, chiefly by 

 Gilbert Talbot aided by various property owners, amongst whom was Walter 

 Mapes, of Worme.sley, who was a friend of Henry II., and incumbent of 

 Westbury in the Forest of Dean ; he attacks clergy and monks in Latin verse. 

 The last Prior, Stratty, was pensioned at £20, a goodly sum in those days. The 

 Vicar exhibited the cover of the chalice ; the chalice itself is not now in the 

 Church. During the episcopacy of Bishop Scory (1559 — 85) in the year 1562 

 Archbishop Parker recommended that " chalices be altered into decent cups " ; 

 this cover is perfectly plain, free from any ornamentation or engraving with the 

 exception of the date 1571. The parish registers commence in 1749. In the 

 churchyard are some massive tombs to the family of Thomas Andrew Knight, 

 President of the Royal Horticultural Society," author of "Pomona Hereford- 

 ensis," &c. 



Time did not permit to visit Wormesley Grange, situated more than a mile 

 distant from the Church. This is reserved for a future occasion, when it is hoped 

 that the Buttas Farm and Dovecot, the Churches of King's Pyon and Canon 

 Pyon, may be included in the day's excursion, terminating with a more careful 

 examination of the beautiful specimens of architectural taste and skill in timber- 

 building existing in the ancient borough of Weobley. 



Proceeding upon their journey towards Weobley, the carriages halted at 

 the site of the ancient Castle so as to allow tfie members to examine the various 

 mounds and surrounding moat which alone remain to testify to its contour and its 



