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tower, Wells Cathedral, Glastonbury Abbey, and well nigh every 
mansion and church in the neighbourhood, withstands the climatic 
changes of the country wonderfully, and retains the most delicate 
carvings unimpaired for centuries. It is still quarried and belongs 
to the “Inferior Oolite” series. The Church contains coloured 
windows and several mural tablets to the Strode family, who own 
the Manor and also an ancient oaken bier with no date thereon, 
but only “ Richard Dole, churchwarden.” A fine Cross 15 feet 
high adorns the churchyard, and some aged yew trees. Proceed- 
ing on their walk, the Field Club passed the picturesque mansion 
of Sir Richard H. Paget, Bart., M.P., at East Cranmore, with a 
_ small church built by his father in 1846 atthe Park gates, and on 
a hill to the left, 800 feet high, the Paget tower, erected 1862. 
The Cranmores derive their name from the abundance of cranes 
which in ancient days, when drainage was unknown, inhabited 
the meare or marshes here about. Doubtless they supplied the 
Monks of Glastonbury with dainty food on festal days, this manor 
having belonged to the Abbey, by gift of Aelphege, a domestic 
of King Edwy, from 956. The Bishops of Bath and Wells 
coveted the manor much, and finally were suffered by the Abbot 
to hold it, in order to pacify them. A curious deed, given in 
London on the 28th April, 42 Henry III. (1258), is handed down 
to us in an ancient hook of 1654, “Upton, de Studio Militari,” 
wherein Henry de Fernbureg engaged for the sum of 30 marks 
sterling to be always ready to fight as the Abbot of Glastonbury’s 
champion, in defence of the right which he had in the manors of 
Cranmore and Pucklechurch, against the Bishop of Bath and 
Wells, the Dean of Wells, and all other his champions whatsoever. 
Bishop William de Bitton II. (1267) got hold of it notwithstanding, 
and it remained in the Bishoprick until Edward VI., when it 
passed to Edward, Duke of Somerset, until his head was required. 
 Scarcely a mile further up’ the Mendips the Farm of Heale was 
reached by the Field Club, opposite to which commences the 
Clandown fault; carboniferous limestone on the East, old red 
