298 The Forty-Sizth General Mecting. 
to all restorers of old buildings of what may be done to secure their 
safety without altering, renewing, or rebuilding the ancient surface 
of the walls. Here again—though Mr. Duke’s collection of 
antiquities has been dispersed, many of them going to the British 
Museum, there remains a valuable and interesting collection of 
books concerning Wiltshire and books by Wiltshire authors, and a 
number of birds shot at Lake, some of them of great interest and 
rarity, e.g., a Chough and a Night Heron. 
By the kindness of Mr. Lovibond the party were ferried across 
the river to GREAT DURNFORD CHURCH, where Mr. E. Doran 
Wess, F.S.A., pointed out the features of interest—the north and 
south doorways, the font and the chancel arch, all of good Norman 
of the 12th century—the lectern, with its chained book, of Jacobean 
oak—the pulpit hanging of blue-green velvet dated “I. G. 1657” 
on the pulpit of 1619—and the remains of glass in the north 
window of the nave, containing a figure of St. Nicholas, and a 
crucifix. Altogether a very interesting Church, which it is much to 
be hoped may not be spoiled when its restoration is taken in hand. 
By permission of the Hon. Louis Greville, HEALE HOUSE was 
next visited, Mr. Doran Wess again acting as guide. ‘The 
house, of brick, and of no great size, is a nice example of the 
architecture of Queen Anne’s time—but in the drawing-room there 
is a good Elizabethan oak mantelpiece, which doubtless came from 
the older house in which Charles II. lay hidden after the Battle of 
Worcester. 
As the party left Heale a visit was paid to a cottage, now in 
ruins, near the entrance gate, which contains upstairs a good 
plaster ceiling of Elizabethan character with griffins depicted on it 
as a crest. Mr. Doran Wess considered that the house was 
never any larger than it is now, but was one of the very small 
manors of which there were a number in this valley of the Avon. 
From this point the carriages returned to Amesbury for lunch, 
leaving afterwards for DURRINGTON CHURCH, passing through 
“Durrington Walls” on the way. Here Tue Vicar (the Rey. 
C. S. Ruddle) gave some account of the Church, and Mr. Doran 
Wess described the architecture. The chief feature of interest is 
