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Church is almost unique, the tracery forming a cross, and this 
is specially noticeable from the inside with the Western light 
shining into the Nave. Time prevented Members lingering 
longer in this interesting Church, which will well repay 
individual Members paying a longer and careful study of the 
‘details of the Transition and Decorated work, and deciding 
points that a hasty visit merely raises. The lovers of 
Tennyson, too, have a special regard for the Building, as it 
is referred to in “In Memoriam,” and here the Hallams, father 
and son, are buried. A start was now made for the Walton 
Park Hotel, where lunch was prepared. In due course, the 
Members being refreshed, the next place visited was Ladye Bay 
{so called from the former proximity to a Church dedicated to 
the B.V.M.). Here an interesting geological section appears, the 
Old Red Sandstone cropping out on the Beach. 
The Rev. H. H. Winwood, with the Geological Map spread 
out on one of the Boulders of Old Red Sandstone, explained the 
position of the Somerset and Gloucestershire Coal Basin, pointing 
out the fringe of Carboniferous Limestone running down like a 
tongue to the S.W., and enclosing patches of Coal Measures 
within its Borders, On passing from the Station to the Old 
Church in the morning the Members may have observed how 
sharply the Limestone dipped to the S., and were tilted up 
almost on end. This was the case with the Palzozoic Strata 
generally in this district. With regard to the strata of Ladye 
Bay the feature of peculiar interest was the fact of the 
yellowish looking Limestones which they saw on their right 
hand resting nearly horizontally on the Red Beds of Sandstone 
dipping landwards at a high angle on their left ; in other words, 
rocks of Mesozoic date resting on the upturned edges of the Old 
Red Sandstone of Paleozoic age. Between these two ought to 
come the whole of the Carboniferous Limestones and the true 
Coal Measures, many thousands of feet of strata being unrepre- 
sented, a good specimen of Unconformity. These yellow beds on 
