Thursday, July 4th. 187 



THURSDAY, JULY 4th. 



Leaving by the 9.13 train from the G.W.R. Station a party 

 numbering twenty -one journeyed by rail to Gloucester and thence 

 drove in a brake to DEERHURST, where they inspected the Parish 

 Church, with its extraordinarily interesting remains of Saxon 

 work, providing so many puzzles for the antiquary, the remains of 

 the Priory incorporated in the adjoining farm-house, and the 

 equally interesting Saxon Chapel. Here CANON W. BAZELEY, 

 late Honorary Secretary of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Society, 

 most kindly undertook the office of guide. Entering the brake 

 again the party drove on past the site of the battle of Tewkesbury 

 to the Swan Hotel at TEWKESBURY, wliere lunch was ready for 

 them. THE ABBEY CHURCH was afterwards excellently seen 

 under the guidance of the sacrist, who has the history of the 

 buildings at his fingers' ends. Though a sharp storm occurred 

 just as the Church at Deerhurst was reached, and a thunderstorm, 

 with rain of exceptional violence delayed the party in reaching 

 the Abbey at Tewkesbury, the weather, though threatening, did not 

 seriously interfere with the carrying out of the day's programme, 

 which proved singularly interesting and enjoyable to those who 

 took part in it. The return journey from Tewkesbury was made 

 by train, reaching Swindon at 6.50. , 



THE CONVERSAZIONE was held again in the Town Hall at 

 8.30, under the chairmanship of the HIGH SHERIFF OF WILTS, 

 MR. F. P. GODDARD, the refreshments this evening being the 

 kind gift of the Local Committee. As on the previous night there 

 were songs and violin solos, and selections by the band, interspersed 

 with the more serious business of the evening, the chief item of 

 which was MR. H. BRAKSPEAR'S address on "THE EXCAVATION 

 OF STANLEY ABBEY," illustrated by plans and a series of lantern 

 slides of the principal objects discovered. MR. A. D. PASSMORE 

 followed with a few photographic slides of the Swindon Quarries, 

 which he explained, and a short talk on the places to be visited 

 next day, from the REV. E. H. GODDARD, with a word or two on 

 the " Grey Wethers," finished the evening. 



