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Mrs. Walmesley, the house was thrown open to the inspection 
of the Members, with all its valuable pictures, statuary, and old 
carved oak cabinets, doors, and exquisite staircase and boudoir. 
Some oak doors, elegantly carved, on the first floor, bear the 
date 1516. Three beautiful pictures by Carlo Dolci are in the 
drawing-room and library, and several by other Italian artists, 
while the portraits of Walmesleys are numerous in the dining- 
room, and busts of the same in the hall. The Churchwarden 
of the Parish conducted the Members all over the house, and,. 
on behalf of the owner, offered them hospitality, but it was 
considered that the kindness of Mrs, Walmesley had already 
been sufficiently trenched upon, so, requesting Mr. Weeks to. 
convey to Mrs. Walmesley the grateful thanks of the Field Club, 
a return was made to the Six Bells Inn at Colerne, where a 
frugal meal of bread and cheese restored the Members to suffi- 
cient energy to enable them to climb the Church tower for the 
extensive and unequalled view. Standing as the village does. 
over 600 feet above the sea level, on a projecting point of 
the Cotswold Range, whence it derives its name, “ Cold Horn,” 
the cyclorama visible from its lofty Church tower is famous. 
The cork-screw staircase, however, to the summit is not of the 
easiest, and several head-coverings bore marks of contusions and 
ill-treatment when the descent was effected. Leaving the village 
at 3 p.m., the return drive, cold but bracing, was made through 
Ditteridge, and, skirting Box, to Batheaston ; a very satisfactory 
excursion being thus added to the Proceedings of the Bath Field 
Club. : 
Worcester, Evesham, and Broadway, June 21st and 22nd, 1898,— 
For this interesting excursion only a small party of eight Members 
of this Club left Bath by the 10 a.m. Midland train for Worcester, 
which was reached shortly after noon. After partaking of an 
excellent luncheon at the Star Hotel the first object visited was 
naturally the Cathedral, its Crypt, Chapter House, and Cloisters. 
A very intelligent verger conducted the party over the interior, 

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