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started by the 9.4 a.m. train of the Great Western Railway for 
Nailsea, stopping an hour at Bristol which gave many an 
opportunity of paying a hurried visit to the Temple Church with 
its remarkable leaning tower, In 1576 Braun in his “ Theatrum 
urbium” mentions this tower as being out of the perpendicular in 
his day, and Abraham Ortelius the geographer, who lived in the 
16th century states that he put a stone as large as a goose egg 
into the chink which opened between the tower and the body of 
the Church where the bells were rung and saw it crushed. 
In 1772 the tower was plumbed and found to be 3ft. Yin. out 
of the perpendicular, As it was allowed to remain when the 
church was lately thoroughly restored, its fall is supposed not to 
be imminent to the damage of the Bristolians resident in 
its vicinity. 
Starting again at 10.40 am., with an addition of another 
member resident in Bristol, Nailsea Station was reached in 20 
minutes, where another member from Clevedon joined the party, 
and the Rev. J. B. Medley, who had kindly consented to conduct 
the Field Club over the sights of the neighbourhood in which he 
resides, met the members, who under his direction, mounted the 
brakes awaiting the train and drove to Chelvey. The first 
structure here visited was the Church of St. Bridget, where the 
Rector gave the members his notes on the interesting edifice. 
The only Norman portion remaining is the arch in the South 
porch, leading into the Church, which is Perpendicular without. 
Chancel Arch. The North walls are sadly out of the perpendicular, 
but otherwise the building is well restored, and contains a south 
aisle with three canopied tombs without figures, several slabs, and 
a Jacobean pew belonging to the Tynte family. A receptacle for 
an hour-glass remains over the pulpit. Close to the Church stands 
a tithe barn which has the buttresses peculiarly supported on 
circular bases. 
Chelvey Court, the remnant of a fine old mansion of the Tyntes, 
stands about 100 yards further, and the wife of the farmer who 
