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tions had been, however, made ranging from the fourteenth to the 
sixteenth century ; and Mr. Irvine pointed out where the North 
pillars of the nave had been raised in Perpendicular times, and 
where the old stone work had been used over again ; the original 
height of the nave was shown where the gable line still exists 
on the West face of the East wall of the Tower ; and the ancient 
masonic marks were very numerous in the old stone work. The 
famous Jesse altar, the work of the latter part of the fifteenth 
century, with its once beautiful sculptures defaced ; the curious 
bosses in the South porch ; the seventeenth century pulpit with its 
grotesque carvings of Jacob wrestling with the Angel, Sampson 
and the lion, David and Goliath, Jonah vomited forth from the 
whale’s mouth, Daniel in the lion’s den with its heathenish and 
semi-classical surroundings, having been duly noted, together with 
an old Prayer Book dated 1751 (containing prayer for the Dowager 
of Wales, the Duke and the Princesses), with the following 
writing on the inside cover :— 
The gift of Mrs, Lloyd to Susannah Lovell, 1801. 
The last place visited was the Vicar’s Close, unique in its way, 
with its hall at one end, chapel at the other, and its range of 
houses with elegant chimneys on either side; originally the work 
of Ralph of Shrewsbury, 1329-1363, but recast and almost rebuilt 
by Bishop Beckington’s three executors, Richard Swan, Hugh 
‘Sugar and John Pope, so that Bishop Beckington may be called 
its second founder, 1443-1465. 
The rain being too persevering to admit of much enjoyment of 
the surrounding scenery; the walk to Wookey Hole Hyena 
Den was deferred to a more fitting time, and the members now 
began to beat a hasty retreat to the Swan, and returned to Bath, 
some by rail and some by road. 
Sept. 30.—The last excursion was to Edington and the Cherhill 
White Horse. Captain Sainsbury, one of the directors, having 
obtained permission for the Members to view the Westbury iron 
works, took command of the party consisting of some twenty- 
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