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] ceedings of the morning were accordingly unduly hurried, and it 
was impossible to stay. HANNINGTON CHURCH was the next 
stopping place. Here attention was drawn to what was once a fine 
female recumbent effigy—which, after having been used as part of 
the base of the pulpit, has now for some years been lying exposed 
in the churchyard. The opinion was generally expressed that this 
- figure should be brought into the Church again for preservation, 
and this the Vicar, the Rev. J. B. Smeaton, kindly promised 
that he would do. Unfortunately time pressed so much that the 
visit to the picturesque Hall, which it was hoped might have been 
included, could not be carried out, and the party had to proceed at 
once to CASTLE EATON CHURCH, where the curious “ Bone Hole,” 
the fifteenth century wooden shafts of the north aisle, the font, 
and the sanctus turret, as well as other points, are interesting. 
From here the route lay back through Hannington to HIGHWORTH, 
where the party arrived about three-quarters of an hour after time, 
and set to work heartily upon an unusually excellent lunch awaiting 
them in the British Schools. After lunch the CHURCH was visited 
_ —a spacious building with several points about it—the most notable 
object here, however, is the silver-gilt chalice of 1534, which is still 
in use, with its paten. This magnificent piece of plate is of the © 
latest and most ornate Pre-Reformation type. (Sve Nightingale’s 
Church Plate of Wiltshire, p. 180), and is one of five of similar date 
and type at present known to exist in England—one of the others 
being that of Wylye, in the south of the county. It was only 
‘possible to glance at the picturesque old mullioned house at the 
bottom of the High Street—a very picturesque street in itself, by 
the way—and at the fine old barn just below, before the breaks 
were off for COLESHILL, just over the Berkshire border, where the 
party were received in the kindest way by Tux Honsix. Duncompr 
and Mrs. Bouventg, the house being thrown open to their inspection 
’ Segalarly complete and unaltered axel of the work of oe 
Tonos, dating from the year 1650, as stated on a most interesting 
copper plate affixed to the wall near the door of Mr. Bouverie’s 
study. The plate contains the fqlowing inscription :— 
