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these oldest genera of crustaceans, conducted the party to the hills, 
passing on the way the fine old Priory Church. Entering through 
the door at the east end beneath the Perpendicular window, and 
rounding the apsidal termination of the Choir, the architectural 
peculiarity of massive round Norman piers and light Perpendicular 
windows strikes the visitor at once. Dr. Grinred’s son kindly 
undertook the explanatory part, and was found quite as well up 
in architecture as his father in geology, and a pleasant half-hour 
was spent in listening to him bringing out the beauties of the 
truly magnificent stained glass 15th century windows. The 
history of St. Werstan, the monk who fled from Deerhurst and 
founded the earliest Saxon Chapel in Malvern, and that of St. 
Wulfstan, the last Saxon Bishop of Worcester and connected with 
this Priory, was there in the storied panes of the north side of the 
Choir ; there in the south Chapel was the curious ‘“ Creation and 
’ said to be the oldest glass in the Church ; on 
that pier was inserted a tile with the date 1455 ; few places can 
show such a variety of encaustic tiles, the delight of Pugin. The 
Norman features were pointed out in the Tower piers, at the base 
Deluge window,’ 
of the apse, in the narrowness of the south aisle, and the Syenite 
of the Malvern Hills which filled in the space between the 
Norman arches and the Clerestory windows; the Perpendicular 
work, in the squared ashlar above, and thus the various details 
were brought out ; but the Dr. was seen rather impatiently hand- 
ling his hammer so that an exit was made towards the hills. St. 
Ann’s Well visited on the way and the pure sparking water tasted, 
after a little hesitation on the part of some of the elders the 
Worcestershire Beacon was fairly breasted and scaled ; the 
Secretary bearing away to the right with the Dr. to see “ Miss 
Phillips’ Conglomerate,” by no means the least interesting 
feature of the day, to him at least. After a short halt at 
this old Silurian beach a quick return was made to Townsend 
Honse, for Dr. Grinrod’s kindness was not yet exhausted, re- 
freshment was laid out and the members must partake of it. 
