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it consists of a nave of six bays, with North and South aisles, and 
porches. On the South is the Fitz Walter Chantry, with a 
coloured window exhibiting the heraldic shields of that family. 
To the North of the Chancel are the tombs of Sir Thomas de 
Cheddar, 1443, and Isabella, his widow, 1476, with inlaid brass 
figures, but the inscriptions are no longer existent. A coloured - 
stone pulpit stands in the central Nave, of very circumscribed 
dimensions, very unsuitable for a portly Vicar, and a plain font 
with an oaken cover in the Western tower. In the Churchyard 
there are some handsome and finely grown Maple trees, acer 
- pseudoplatanus, and an ancient yew, but no epitaphs worth 
recording. 
Before proceeding to view Mr. Gough’s newly discovered 
caverns, a brief visit was paid to the Bath Arms Hotel, where the 
members found a frugal repast prepared for them, fortified by 
which the half-mile walk to the Cheddar Cliffs and Caverns was 
speedily covered. Passing the Cox Caves discovered in 1837, the 
newly discovered Cavern of Mr. Gough is soon reached, and after 
payment of the entrance charge of 1s. a head the long passage is 
entered leading to the two magnificent chambers opened out in 
1898. The whole of this subterranean wonder is brilliantly 
illuminated by electricity, and the stalactites and stalagmites are 
numerous and extraordinary. In one chamber the calcareous 
deposit has taken the form of two natural baths, and in the last 
it represents a frozen river sparkling with diamonds, while in 
another a slender stalactite, of the thickness of a cord, has 
reached the ground, and become attached to its stalagmite. The 
chambers at the present end of the Cavern are transcendently 
beautiful, many of the stalactites being stained of a ruddy hue by 
iron, and assuming every imaginable form. It is known that 
many more Caverns exist on both sides of those already opened to 
_ the public. A subterranean river once ran through these Caves, 

entering a “swallet” hole in the carboniferous limestone to the 
summit of the Mendip near Charterhouse, two miles distant. 
