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which is more interesting than pleasing. Also, it is evident that 
at this point the character of the roof changes, though it is a good 
deal concealed by plaster. The western part of the Nave is there- 
fore older than the remainder. The Church has a sanctus bell cot. 
In the Perpendicular windows a good many pieces of the original 
glass remain, 
July Tth, 1875.—One other bye-Excursion is worthy of record, 
that to Badminton and Horton. 
Badminton and Horton.—Nothing particular occurred to the 
party of fourteen (12 members and 2 visitors) who left the York 
house at 9 a.m. in a break and four on the morning of July 
7th, save the loss of a gallant Colonel, in Badminton park, 
and their lucky discovery of the same after a short interval 
of suspense. After a pleasant drive along-side of the avenue 
to the lodge, a turn to the left by Ragged Castle out into 
the Tetbury road brought the party to Horton Rectory. Here 
the Rev. J. Blackburn conducted the members to the camp, 
called Horton Castle, an arc-shaped embankment, cutting off 
a spur of the hill with its convex side turned towards the 
plateau. A magnificent view was obtained here of the vale of 
Severn with its rich foliage, and the different historical points of 
the Cotteswold hills, such as Tyndale’s Monument, and the Duke 
of Somerset's; with Horton Church tower below, Newark 
house, &c., in the distance. After enjoying the profuse hospitality 
of the kind Rector and his lady, the members descended the 
steep slope to the church, a plain and simple edifice of Perpendi- 
cular date, with nothing to attract attention, save its extreme 
simplicity in the internal furniture, and a monument 1737, 
recording a marriage in the now-celebrated Tichborne family, 
The south porch deserves a passing notice for its curious capitals. 
one in the N.W. corner representing a man with the bagpipes, 
the other some griffin form ; a parvise is over the porch. Imme- 
diately adjoining the church on the south is the ancient Manor 
house, formerly belonging to the Paston’s, entered by a late 
