8 The Forty-Fourth General Meeting. 
some details of a Saxon Church of much interest have existed 
hidden away under rough cast, &c., quite unsuspected, to the 
present time. It seems due chiefly to Mr. Hill’s knowledge and 
enthusiasm that the value of this discovery has been duly appreciated 
by those who have the restoration of the Church in hand, though 
unhappily a good deal of damage in the way of the destruction of 
the old Saxon plaster had been done before Mr. Hill came on the 
scene. This paper also evoked a good deal of discussion, the 
audience being evidently much interested in the discovery. Mr. 
Hill’s account of the Church will be printed in The Archeological 
Journal. 
A series of really fine enlarged carbon photographs of the 
principal buildings in Bradford were exhibited by Mx. W. Doresto, 
and he generously presented the Society with two admirable views 
of the Saxon Church. 
THURSDAY, JULY 29ru. 
The carriages again left Bradford at 9.30, and passing through 
Holt without stopping, halted at Broughton Gifford Church, 
where Mr. Apyr acted as cicerone. Some discussion arose as to 
the age of the arcade of the north aisle—most of the arehitectural 
Members being unable to agree with Mr. Apye in placing the date 
anything like as late as the 15th century. 
After leaving the Church the carriages halted for a moment in 
front of the Old Manor House in the village, which still remains 
much as it was built by Sir John Horton in the year 1629, and 
then proceeded to Monkton, where the occupier—Mr. Buake— 
most courteously received the party and allowed them to wander 
over his house from top to bottom. Though this fine old house is 
visible from the railway, few of the Members had ever had an 
opportunity of visiting it before. In his History of Broughton 
Gifford, the Rey. J. Wilkinson (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. v., p. 341) 
repeats a local tradition as to the manner in which Mr. Samuel 
Shering, whose portrait still hangs in the dining-room, became 
possessed of the property which belonged to the Duke of Kingston, 
for whom he acted as steward; Mr. Bike, in showing the picture, 
