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the finely restored Church of S. Aldhelm, over which the venera- 
ble Vicar, the late Rev. James Hamilton, and his Curate, conduc- 
ted the party. The lintel of the North door is about the only 
portion of the original Norman Church left ‘in situ.” The 
Octagonal tower is good of the 13th Century, and stands at the 
Junction of the Nave Chancel and Transepts. The Spire which 
crowns it is of later date. An oak and iron screen separates the 
chancel from the body of the Church, and an elegant Malachite 
ross is over the Altar. The aged Vicar next conducted the party 
through his garden to S. Aldhelm’s well, situated in a pretty little 
dell, shaded by trees and adorned with flowering saxifrages. S. 
Aldhelm was stricken unto death at this spot, and at his last re- 
- quest was carried to the little wooden Church which stood in 709 
on the site of the Chancel of the present Church dedicated to his 
memory, whence his body was afterwards conveyed to the Abbey 
of Malmesbury, his place of education, and buried in S. Michael’s 
Chapel. S. Aldhelm was of the Royal blood of Wessex, and was 
appointed first Bishop of Sherborne by King Ina in 705. He 
built the ecclesiola of Bradford-on-Avon, the first stone Church in 
England, and was regarded as a Saint even in his lifetime, from 
the peculiar power he possessed of drying his clothes by hanging 
them on a sunbeam. - 
Thanking the Vicar for his kindly reception, the great barn of 
the Abbot of Glastonbury, built early in the fifteenth century, was 
next visited, and its vast dimensions, strong buttresses and oak 
- roof duly observed. 
Mounting the brakes again, a start was made for Messrs. C. 
Trask and Sons’ quarries at Chaylinch, and the geological part of 
the day’s excursion commenced. The Vice-President of the Club, 
the Rev. H. H. Winwood, here explained to the members the 
nature of this freestone, strongly represented by three substantial 
beds here, but only thinly near Bath, in a broken-up form near 
Midford. This stone is not so odlitic as the Great Odlite used as 
building stone at Bath, but of far harder texture, and so more 
