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remainder of the Church is mainly of 15th century date. 

 The great glory of the edifice is its fine stained-glass 

 windows. Formerly every window was filled with stained 

 glass, but in the last century a good deal was destroyed, 

 and it is even asserted that one Vicar had a dove-cot in 

 the North Transept and broke some of the glass to 

 enable the birds to get in and out. The party were most 

 fortunate in securing the kind services, as guide, of Mr 

 Nott, of Malvern, who has been for a long time an 

 enthusiastic student of the windows. An hour-and-a-half 

 passed only too rapidly as the party accompanied Mr Nott 

 from window to window and with keen appreciation 

 watched the apparently meaningless masses of colour 

 resolve themselves into sacred and secular pictures under 

 his clear and animated description. 



After a substantial luncheon at the Foley Arms the 

 party drove with Mr Dyke-Acland as guide along the 

 western flank of the Malverns as far as Winds Point, 

 dismounting here and there to study the geological 

 problems everywhere presented. 



As Mr Acland pointed out, the Malverns present two 

 great problems to geologists. On the eastern side of the 

 range you look over the great Triassic and Liassic plain 

 which extends to the Cotteswold escarpment. On the 

 western side are Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, and 

 Carboniferous Rocks. Between these Palaeozoic and 

 Secondary formations rises the lofty chain of the 

 Malverns, attaining at one point a height of more than 

 '1,400 feet. How the chain came there, and when, is 

 one geological problem. 



Another problem concerns the constituent rocks of the 

 range.* Professor Phillips held that they are mainly of 

 igneous origin. In the second volume of the "Memoirs 



* These problems were first attacked by Professor Strickland, Dr Hall, and the Rev. 

 W. S. Symonds ; all of whom, it may be noted, were distinguishedmembers of the 

 Cotteswold Club. 



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