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Saxon cliancel arch ; at Limpley Stoke there is a very remark- 

 able Saxon doorway on the south side of the church. It is 

 a sight that visitors to the church may easily miss, as they may 

 visit the church and go away and not see it. If they do not 

 walk all round they will not see it because all the architectural 

 featuring of Limpley Stoke Church, contrary to the usual plan 

 of a church, is on the north side. It is by the door on the north 

 side that the church is entered, and almost all the windows are 

 on the north side, so that the south side appears to be a blank 

 wall. But if you take the trouble to walk round the church, 

 you will see a most perfect bit of Saxon architecture ; an old 

 doorway in its place perfectly complete. There are the jambs 

 of the door and the arch of rude timber, like stone-work, but 

 in perfect condition. Mr. Forss who showed it to us (I was 

 led thither by my friend Mr. Skrine) was himself under the 

 impression that it was a door that was brought from the Manor 

 House close by, indeed in the next field. That this door had an 

 intimate relation with the Manor House, is manifest, in so far 

 as it was through this doorway that the people of the Manor 

 House would pass in and out. In this sense it was the door of 

 the Manor House, but that it had a more material connection 

 with that house is not at all likely. It is not like anything in a 

 private house, and there it is where it should be, directly 

 opposite the north door. It was usual for a church of that 

 period to consist of one long room, one long parallelogram 

 crossed by two doors opposite to each other. Limpley Stoke 

 Church has both these doors in evidence, but the south door 

 is walled up, and the north door is in use. It is worth anyone's 

 while to walk there to see it. But when we speak of church 

 architecture, there is in this neighbourhood an example, such as 

 exists nowhere else ; a unique example of a Saxon Church that 

 has been discovered in our own day, and which was brought out 

 and cleared from the incumbrances of the adjoining buildings 

 mainly by the activity of Mr. Jones, who was then the vicar. He 



