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E. ©. Lowndes, esq., whose patronymic was Gorst, and who has 
enlarged the manor house considerably, and beautified the 
terraced gardens. 
The Field Club was conducted first to the church, a very fine 
structure, nearly re-built by Mr. Poulett Scrope in 1851. Of the 
original early English church there remains a unique chancel arch, 
decorated by three figures on each side in carved canopies, and a 
4-light east window with a quatrefoil in the tympanum. The 
church is lofty with clerestory and aisles. The tower dates from 
1434 with fantracery groining with central hole to raise or lower 
the bells. It was built by Sir John Fastolf who was second 
husband to Lady Millicent Scrope, and after her decease retained 
possession of the estates on the plea of the custom of England. 
Thus Stephen Scrope was kept out of his estates for 53 years until 
the decease of his father-in-law in 1459. 
There is an altar tomb in the church to one of the Dunstanvilles, 
with an effigy in chain mail. 
Mr. E. C. Lowndes conducted the party over his charming 
grounds on leaving the church. The gardens are terraced on the 
slope of a steep hill to the north of the Manor house, and in the 
foreground flows the rapid brook, descending from each side of a 
high hill on which stands a tower, marking the site of the ancient 
castle and earthworks, covering a space of nine acres. 
Time not sufficing to mount to this earthwork and the tumulus 
and cromlech which lie beyond, the brakes were again mounted 
and Grittleton was reached at 2 p.m., where the Red Lion Inn 
offered the necessary repast to support the famine struck party. 
Grittleton, formerly Grutelington, was for 600 years a manor 
of the Abbot of Glastonbury. At the dissolution of the 
monasteries in 1544, the property was purchased of the Crown 
by Mr. Gore, of Surrendell and Alderton, from whom, in 1601, it 
was bought by the Whites of Langley Burrell. Their heiress in 
1707, Priscilla, married a Houlton of Farley Castle, and the 
Houltons, in 1828, sold the property to Joseph Neeld, who built 
