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forty at the Evening Meeting afterwards, when Mr. Taxzor read 
his paper on “ Amesbury Church: reasons for thinking that it was 
not the Church of the Priory,” relying on various recorded 
- measurements, and the evidence of the destruction of the Abbey 
Church, to prove that the existing building cannot be identified 
with it. He was followed by the Rev. C. S. Ruppe, Vicar of 
_ Durrington, who read a short paper reinforcing Mr. Talbot’s 
arguments, whilst Mr. E. Doran Wess, F.S.A., and the Rev. 
_ A. W. Puewrs spoke on the opposite side. At this point, when 
_ the interest in the discussion was at its height, the proceedings 
were brought to an ignominious conclusion by the landlord inti- 
mating that those who were not staying in the hotel must leave 
the house, as it was 10 o’clock. Accordingly they grumbled and 
left, and once outside promptly came to the conclusion that there 
was no manner of reason for their being turned out. It was, 
however, too late then, and Members went home to bed. 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5ru. 
The first place on the day’s excursion at which the carriages 
stopped was WILSFORD CHURCH, the only points of interest in 
which seemed to be the 12th century Norman west door, and the 
base of the cross, apparently of 15th century date, on the south 
side of the Church. After a very short stoppage here the party 
went on to LAKE HOUSE, where Mr. Lovinonp, the present owner, 
received them and read some notes on the house. This beautiful 
old house, when it passed quite lately into Mr. Lovibond’s hands, 
was in a very bad state of repair, the walls and mullions very 
badly cracked, whilst the outer surface of the walls was in 
many places wholly separated from the inner core of rubble 
work. Now, under the care of Mr. Detmar Blow, the whole of 
_ the walls have been most carefully repaired—entirely from inside— 
so that it is undoubtedly true to say that from the outside no one 
would have any idea that anything whatever had been done to it. 
Not a new stone, or a new bit of mullion is visible, and Mr. 
_Lovibond may well feel proud of the example which he has given 
