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deemed -worthy of a visit by the Somersetshire Archfeological and 

 Natural Histoiy Society in 1851, and has also been visited by the 

 Archfeological Institute. According to CoUinson, the abbot and 

 convent of Cirencester were the patrons of this church, which was 

 granted to them by their foimder, Henry I., A.D. 1133, but the 

 church, which exhibits two or three styles of architecture, was pro- 

 bably almost wholly rebuilt at the cost of Sir Walter Hungerford, 

 A.D. 1372, its principal features being of that date. The interior 

 contains a very interesting effigy of a priest, which was discovered 

 buried outside the south wall of the chancel when the church was 

 restored in 1845. There is also a debased monument of the early 

 pai-t of the 17th century to a lady of the Popham family, with a 

 Latin epitaph under it, and some memorials of the Hungerford 

 family ; the church is dedicated to St. Julian. There are some 

 ancient mural paintings on the north and east wall of the side 

 aisle, and a rood screen of ancient though not very elaborate work 

 divides the chancel from the nave. 



After completing the inspection of the church, the party having 

 procured the necessary means for lighting up the tumulus at Stoney 

 Littleton, a mile distant, proceeded to walk thither. This very 

 interesting ban-ow has been carefully described in the " Proceedings 

 of the Somersetshire ArchiEological and Natural History Society." 

 It was first described by Sir R. C. Hoare (Archasologia, vol. xix., 

 pp. 43-48) from drawings and measurements made by the Rev. J. 

 Skinner, Rector of Camerton, which is the parish adjoining to 

 Wellow. When the party had arrived at the tumulus, and had 

 entered and inspected the interior, they were assembled at the 

 entrance by the Rev. H. M. Scarth, who gave them an account of 

 its discovery, and of the nature of its contents when first opened. 

 He reminded the Club that last year they had visited a similar 

 chambered tumulus at Uleybury, in Gloucestershire, in which 

 county several barrows of a somewhat similar kind had been 

 opened, and their contents and the an-angement of their chambers 

 described. None were however so perfect as that at Stoney 

 Littleton, which he believed to be the only perfect one existing in 

 this countiy, and therefore it ought to be very carefully preserved. 

 Some years since (A.D. 1854) it had been injured by the falling in 



