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interesting notes on the neighbourhood. Among others was the 
information that the derivation of the name of this hamlet was from 
a former Church dedicated to S. Bridget in the place. There is not 
the slightest trace of such a Church having existed either in ruins or 
documents, but a farm is styled Church farm and a lane bears the 
same name. After doing full justice to this repast a mile walk 
followed in wind and rain to the village of Siston, passing halfway 
on the Jeft in a farm-house the porch and window of an ancient 
building where Queen Catherine Parr is said to have resided for 
some months and held her Court after visiting Bath. 
The Church of Siston is dedicated to S. Anne, mother of the 
B.V.M., and possesses a Norman door in the 8. Porch, and a 
most interesting leaden font of the same age. It seems to have 
been cast, and the exterior is ornamented with six figures of 
vested Bishops in the act of blessing, and six panels of scroll 
work in the intervals. The Rector of Siston exhibited to the 
Members an ancient Inventory of Church property on paper, 
signed by the Churchwardens of the Reformation period, stating 
that there belonged to the parish a Priest’s Vestments, some 
parcel-gilt Altar-plate and two Altar cloths with other articles, but 
that the ‘‘Church had been broken” and the plate had disappeared. 
The thieving Wardens of that period generally ascribed to 
burglars the loss of Church valuables. In the Church, which is 
of Early English architecture, are several mural tablets of the 
Trotman family, who held the Court from the commencement of 
the 18th Century to 1843, when their coheiress brought the 
mansion into the family of Dickenson, who now hold it. In the 
S. of the Nave there is a modern recess fitted up as a pew, 
and containing on the E. side a monument erected by a discon- 
solate widow, named Ivyleafe, to her hasband. The widow is 
represented in marble with emaciated figure weeping over an urn. 
There are three chained books on the sill of the North window, 
rebound in 1889, but with several pages missing. There are also 
several coloured windows in the Church, which has an elegant 
