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So thanking Mrs. Boulter for the luncheon she had provided 
at her hotel, the mile thence to Portishead Parish Church was 
soon covered, and a domestic from the neighbouring vicarage 
having admitted the party to the building through the vestry, 
the coloured windows of the restored Church were duly admired, 
and the quaint galleries over the south entrance and to the west 
ends of the nave and aisle, with old oak balustrades. The 
colonnade separating the north aisle from the nave is considerably 
out of the perpendicular, and a buttress in the shape of a flat arch 
bears the northern thrust to the exterior wall. The pulpit is 
reached by a winding stone stair in the south wall of the nave, 
formerly the approach to the rood loft, very inconveniently narrow 
for a portly vicar. The lofty Perpendicular tower is the finest 
part of this Church, and an elegant stone cross stands in the 
churchyard. 
Two miles intervene between this Church and Portbury, which 
the pedestrians succeeded in effecting with difficulty in conse- 
quence of the high temperature, so that a halt was called at the 
railway station a quarter of a mile short of the fine restored 
Church. Three members, who had preceded the rest in a carriage, 
alone viewed the fine old yew trees in the churchyard, con- 
siderably over 500 years old, and the good Norman font in the 
Church. The remains of the Priory are now converted into a 
Village School. 
A train from Portbury station at 4.10 p.m. speedily, and 
without change of carriage at Bristol, restored the members to 
their domiciles at Bath after an instructive and pleasant excursion. 
Blenheim Palace, Broughton Castle, and Compton Wynyates, 
May 21 and 22, 1897.—Twenty Members of the Field Club 
joined the second excursion of the season, and by the courtesy of 
the Great Western Railway Company were provided with a saloon 
carriage attached to the 9.52 a.m. train. At Kidlington the 
carriage was detached and tethered to the local train for Wood- 
stock, which was reached about half-past 12. 

