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xxvii., p. 236) seems an even more elaborate specimen. Altogether 
this house would well repay fuller illustration and more careful 
examination than it has yet received, for Mr. Elyard’s one drawing 
and sketchy account of it does not by any means exhaust the subject. 
From this point the carriages drove, and their occupants walked, 
for the most part by precipitous ways, to Farleigh Hungerford, 
where The Castle was first explored, still under the leadership 
of Mr. Apye—the border of the County of Wilts having been 
crossed some yards on the further side of the stream which runs 
below the Castle walls. Of the Castle itself the gate towers and 
two corner towers of the inner court, with parts of the curtain walls, 
are the chief portions remaining—the domestic ‘buildings having 
entirely disappeared. The chapel, however, remains intact, and is 
used as a sort of museum—the walls being hung with a large 
‘collection of arms and armour, mostly of the Civil War period. 
The grand tombs of the Hungerfords in the projecting chapel are, 
of course, the principal objects of interest, but there are many 
things worth seeing—the fine ironwork of the grille and nice glass 
in the windows (of various nationalities and dates, chiefly 16th and 
17thcentury). In a vault under this chapel, seen through the bars of 
an iron gate, lie the lead coffins of those whose effigies appear above. 
Farleigh Church was described by Mr. Apyx, on the 
strength of an existing consecration deed, as having been built late 
in the 15th century by Walter, Lord Hungerford, but Mr. Ponrine 
pointed out that, judging by the architecture of the nave, the body 
of the Church would appear to be rather of 14th century date— 
altered, and with the tower added, late in the 15th century. In 
the glass of the south window of the chancel appear the Hungerford | 
arms, charmingly introduced in the centre of three interlaced sickles. ” 
There is also old glass in the east window. | > 
At this point an adjournment was made, for lunch, to the 
Hungerford Arms, after which the party proceeded through the 
beautiful grounds of the modern castellated mansion, “ Farleigh 
Castle,” to Norton St. Philip, where Mr. Haroitp BraksPEAR 
acted as cicerone. The Church was first visited. The fine west 
tower, with its prominent buttresses stopping under the projecting 
