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renders the Minster particularly picturesque, both externally 
and internally, as well as all the school buildings to its N., which 
incorporate all the remains of the powerful Benedictine Abbey 
founded by Bishop Roger of Sarum in 1139. Mr. Wildman, 
who it may be said has the antiquities of Sherborne at his 
fingers’ ends, and to whom the work of conducting a party such 
as Members of a distant Field Club over the still standing 
glories of time-stained Church and town seemed to give immense 
pleasure, conducted the party over the whole of the glorious 
Minster, the Vicar of the Parish, Canon Lyon, who is un- 
fortunately nearly bereft of sight, also receiving the Members at 
the Norman 8. porch, and drawing the attention of the visitors 
to some of the peculiarities of the structure and its contents. 
A good hour was devoted to the Minster and the School 
buildings to its N., which were all open to view, the 219 pupils 
now on the books luckily being only expected to return the 
same evening from their long vacation. After which a retreat 
was made to the Digby Hotel, a fine house between the Abbey 
and the Station, where a substantial luncheon was provided for 
the Field Club, which was honoured by the company of Canon 
Lyon and Mr. Wildman, to both of whom at the conclusion of 
the meal a vote of hearty thanks was returned, on the proposi- 
tion of Mr. T, Fred Inman, the senior Member of the Field 
Club present, for their kindly reception and valuable information. 
Physically restored, the Members started again up Long Street, 
which contains several ancient and picturesque houses, to the 
Eastern end of the town, where stand in the Park of Mr. Wing- 
field Digby, M.P., the scanty remains of the Castle, built by 
Bishop Roger in 1107, and the principal residence of the Bishops 
of Sarum until Bishop Cotton alienated it to sir Walter Raleigh 
in the reign of Elizabeth. Mr. W. B. Wildrian fully explained 
to the party the original plan of the Castle, and conducted them 
subsequently down to the lake in the Park, formed by the em- 
bankment of the river Yeo or Ivel, on the S. side of which stands 

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