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name. The Rector, the Rev. A. C. Lawrence, a courteous 

 and capable guide to the edifice, showed the well-preserved 

 parish register, which dates from 1539: it contains 

 curious entries of persons being touched for king's evil, 

 bodies buried in wool, and of the marriage of Sir Walter 

 Raleigh's grandson. Of the Court, now occupied by Mr. 

 C. Faulkner Dobell, one of the most interesting points is 

 the size and character of the arches, which the late Pro- 

 fessor Middleton considered were the remains of a 

 destroyed castle, whose moat and walls still exist. On 

 the old staircase is a good example of a dog-gate; and two 

 of the bedrooms have interesting oak entrance -lobbies. 

 Of another style of architecture is the fine old manor 

 house and buildings at Upper Dowdeswell, occupied by 

 Mr. J. Arkell. 



Doddle's Hole, at Whittington, is of special interest, 

 because here, for generations, the Lower Freestone has 

 been worked underground. It is a massive bed, overlying 

 the Pea Grit, and yields the best building stone in the 

 district : its good qualities are apparent in Whittington 

 Church and Court. From Cleeve Hill to Colesbourne 

 a special feature of the geology is the persistence of the 

 Upper Trigonia-Grit upon beds which were denuded 

 before its deposition. At Cleeve Hill there are, between 

 the Upper Trigonia-Grit and the Notgrove .Freestone, 

 beds about twenty-five feet thick •, at Cold Comfort only 

 four feet ; but in the Hilcot Valley the upper bed rests 

 directly on the lower ; and at Colesbourne, the Notgrove 

 Freestone has entirely disappeared — the bed immediately 

 below it has the Upper Trigonia-Grit resting on its sur- 

 face. The explanation of this interesting feature of the 

 district is that there had been a considerable amount of 

 denudation of the beds below the Upper Trigonia-Grit, 

 before that bed was deposited. Some of the details of 

 this geological feature the members were able to study, 



