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Rector and churchwarden kindly met the members and pointed 
out the chief objects of interest. It is a fine building of the 15th 
century in good repair, and evidently well cared for. The lofty 
piers of the nave are slender and graceful, with a rather peculiar 
moulding round them above the capital. The poet Crabbe, 
Though Nature’s sternest painter yet her best, 
formerly rector, has a white marble slab to his memory on the 
north wall of the chancel, and in the Rectory grounds adjoining is 
avery old mulberry trec called Crabbe’s tree, under whose friendly 
shade he is stated to have sat, and either here or in the Library 
of the Rectory written his poetry. The view of the Church and 
spire from the north-west corner of the churchyard, close to the 
nineteenth century tomb of Thomas Hellier, of riotous memory, 
who suffered apparently unjustly in the Factory disturbances of 
1803, is very good. On returning to the station, the house where 
Edward Hyde, ultimately Lord Chancellor Clarendon, lived, now 
the County Court, was visited. Pewsey having been at last 
reached, a break was there in readiness to convey the party to 
Manningford Bruce, about two miles distant. The Rector being 
absent his place was admirably supplied by his daughters, who 
seemed to he well posted in all the details of their beautiful and 
most interesting Church. From their account and some notes 
given by the Secretary from a recent admirable paper by Dr. 
Baron, in the Wiltshire Magazine, the following peculiarities were 
noticed :—1. The very ancient form of the Church, consisting of 
an apse, a chancel and nave, in accordance with the old basilicas 
or halls of justice, the absence of any east window in the apse, the 
space having originally been filled with the representation of a 
“ majesty ” so characteristic of eastern churches, the light being 
admitted by two round-headed windows on the north and south 
side ; 2. The smallness and height of the windows above the 
ground level, probably for the purposes of security and obviating 
the draught in those days when glass was not in use; 3. The 
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