130 The Forty-Seventh General Meeting. 
and dispensed tea to the considerable company, to many of 
whom, ao doubt the fact that GRITTLETON was on the programme 
was the special attraction of this day’s excursion. For though the 
house is, from an architectural and archzeological point of view, — 
quite without interest, yet it contains many treasures well worth | 
the seeing. Much modern statuary, some fine cabinets, &c., and a 
large gallery of pictures, of which the best, a Romney, Constable's 
“Dedham Vale,” a Frans Hals, a Gainsborough, and others of 
the Dutch school, are of first-class interest and importance. 
Leaving Grittleton the Members drove to HULLAVINGTON 
CHURCH, where Mr. Braksprar again acted as guide. The 
Church has suffered a good deal from re-building, but there is 
much of interest still remaining. Mr. Brakspear’s notes on this 
and the other Churches described by him during the Meeting will 
appear in the Magazine later on. The fine piece of late 15th 
century embroidery, now preserved in a glazed frame at the 
vicarage, which was recently described in the Wagasine,! was shown 
by the Vicar, and then the Secretary’s horn sounding inexorably 
the Members had to hurry away in order to keep up to time. This, 
indeed, was the only occasion during the excursions when there 
was at all a feeling of undue hurry. 
Driving on to BRADFIELD MANOR HOUSE, now occupied as a 
farm-house, the party were most kindly allowed by Mr. and Mrs. 
Garuick to wander over the whole house and see all of interest 
that it contained, and though the gatehouse, the porch, and other 
parts, shown in Aubrey’s sketch, are gone, yet enough remains of 
good 15th century work in the hall, and of the later work of about 
1640 behind it, to make the house a very interesting one to visit. 
CORSTON CHURCH was the only other stopping-place; time did 
not allow of the party going into the Church, which has, indeed, 
nothing of interest in the interior—but the very picturesque west 
wall, crowned with its corbelled bell-cot, was inspected, and Mr. 
PonTine’s notes thereon were read by the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 
The Vicar very Pau had the pretty Elizabethan chalice on view. 
1 Wilts Arch. Pi vol. xxx., p. 348. 
