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Soon after 12 o'clock Deerhurst was reached, and an examination 

 of the Saxon Church, which has recently attracted so much 

 attention, immediately entered on. To call it a chapel would be 

 more in accordance with its history ; and its unpretentious and 

 non-ecclesiastical exterior had very much the appearance of the 

 old-fashioned timber-built dwellings so common in Cheshire. 



Here Mr. Shum, F.S.A., upon whom, in the absence of the 

 secretary, devolved the management of the excursion, gave a brief 

 account of the building. He commenced by saying that in no 

 part of England could a student of English architecture alight 

 upon two edifices of so much value and interest as this Saxon 

 chapel, and the pre-Norman parish church, both situated in the 

 charming, though now sparsely populated and out-of-the-way 

 village of Deerhurst ; not only on account of the great antiquity 

 and genuine character of the remains, but because of the many 

 moot points and difficult questions connected with the several 

 periods of the architectural details. He stated that the Saxon 

 chapel was discovered in August, 1885, by the Rev. G. Butterworth, 

 vicar of the parish, who, he (Mr. Shum) regretted was unable to 

 accompany the club in consequence of his absence in Scotland. 

 Great credit was due to him, not only for its discovery and 

 judicious restoration, but for the able andaccurate description hehad 

 given to the Society of Antiquaries in London and to the Bristol and 

 Gloucestershire Archreological Society. Originally the building was 

 a chapel attached to the Manor House of Deerhurst, and up to the 

 date first mentioned had been considered a very picturesque old 

 farmhouse, commonly known by the name of " Abbot's court ; " 

 in the latter part of Edward the Confessor's reign the manor 

 of Deerhurst belonged to Pershore Abbey, but in the last year of 

 bis life he granted both the manors of Pershore and Deerhurst to 

 his royal abbey of S. Peter, at Westminster. The Dean and 

 Chapter of Westminster afterwards became the owners until it 

 fell into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 

 consequence of a change of tenancy in 1885, the Commissioners 



