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of crosses, single, double, within squares, and without squares. 
On the N.W. buttress of N. aisle was a spot circle with four 
radiating spokes or rays, some of the latter extending beyond 
the circumference. From its position on the N. side the idea of 
its being a sundial does not carry weight. On the S. side, an 
old altar slab with consecration crosses, found during some 
alterations in the interior, rests against the wall. 8S. Cadbury 
Church dedicated to St. Thomas 4 Becket, about a mile to the S., 
was next visited; standing on the slope of the well-wooded 
Castle hill, its situation is very picturesque, and all its surround- 
ings betoken a reverent care. A nave, S. aisle, chancel and S. 
porch with W. tower, and outside wooden staircase, the latter 
being admirably adapted inside for a pulpit on the N. wall, are 
its chief features. The moulding of the E. and W. shafts in 
the 8. aisle are somewhat peculiar for Perpendicular work. In 
the 8. E. corner the jambs of an early English window, with tho 
figure of an ecclesiastic (a Bishop), supposed by the Rector to 
be Thomas 4 Becket to whom the church is dedicated, the form 
of the mitre agreeing with this date, has been opened out, the 
jamb of a later window having hitherto obscured it; beneath 
are the defaced remains of a piscina, indicating the site of an 
original altar or 13th century chapel. A painted window in 
the S. side of the chancel, representing the Annunciation, 
and dedicated to the memory of “Grace Bartlett, 1858,” 
attracted much attention, the female figures being most 
graceful and the faces, probably intended for likenesses, much 
admired. Outside on the 8.E. corner of (S. aisle) was 
another spot with divergent rays, six or seven of unequal length 
radiating from S. side of centre. A freshly cut semi-circle sur- 
rounding the lower half either indicating what originally existed, 
or else due to the imagination of the first discoverer. Some fainter 
lines were irregularly interspersed, making in all 19 or 11 rays. 
Leaving the church on the right hand, a narrow lane, probably 
an ancient British trackway, led up to the N E. entrance of the 
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