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party proceeded to the Parish Church, where they were met 
by the Rector, the Rev. E. F. Clayton, who kindly lionised 
them over this Church. This remarkably fine old Church 
consists of a nave, N. and 8. aisles, noble chancel, transepts, with 
chapels on the N, and S. sides of the chancel, and a central tower. 
The chapels and tower, as well as the roof of the nave, were 
undergoing repair and could not therefore be seen to advantage, 
but when all is completed it will certainly rank amongst our 
largest and most interesting parish churches. The entrance to 
the Church from the 8. door leads into a lofty, handsome porch 
with stone groined roof. The font, both bowl and pedestal, is 
round and massive with no device upon it, but the bowl appears 
to have been much knocked about and chipped, and may probably 
originally have had some emblematical figures or design; it is 
evidently very old and certainly early Norman, if not Saxon. 
Handsome, carved oak screens divide the nave from the chancel, 
as well as the aisles from the two chapels. The chancel has no 
less than sixteen oak stalls on each side, with carved miserere 
seats; under each of the latter are various grotesque figures 
and devices. The windows are for the most part early English 
and Decorated, and some of the glass exceptionally good. There 
were several imposing monuments in the Church, amongst others 
one to Lady Eyre the wife of Sir John Eyre, “Lord of the 
Marches,” and to Ambrosia, the daughter of Sir Henry Sidney, 
and to Sir John Bridgeman, both of these gentlemen being Lords 
of the Marches—the latter official was supposed to be very severe 
in his sentences, and a bellman in the town having been im- 
prisoned by him for some offence composed the following epitaph 
on Sir John’s death :— 
‘© Here lies Sir John Bridgeman clad in his clay,” 
“ God said to the Devil, Sirrah, take him away.” 
After leaving the Church the members went back to the hotel and 
soon afterwards started for a most enjoyable drive ; proceeding 
first to Downton Castle, they alighted and sent the brake round 
