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Yatton ,and Mr. C. E. Davis acted as ciceroni, and pointed out 
the architectural features of the vicarage and Church, Standing 
near the fine lime tree in the Vicar’s pretty garden, Mr. Davis 
told them how the porch, with its imitation dog-tooth ornament, 
was the work of the executors of Bishop Beckington, about 
A.D. 1470—their crests being on the shield on the west of the 
doorway ; the chief peculiarity in this old fifteenth century house 
consisting in the position of the principal rooms, which, instead 
of being on the same level, appear to have formed an upper storey. 
Passing round the outside of the Church, with its two curious 
square-headed windows, supposed to be Decorated, and spire- 
capped tower, a rare feature in Somersetshire Churches, Mr. 
Davis took the party inside; here their attention was drawn to 
the Early English pillars of the south aisle, with their four 
detached shafts, and the Decorated pillars on the north aisle, to 
the corbel on the north wall which formerly supported the beam 
of the rood-loft extending right across the church, to the fine arch 
under the tower, and to the extremely elegant and many-lighted 
clerestory of the early Perpendicular period. 
Mr. Scarth supplemented Mr. Davis’s remarks by an allusion 
to the ancient history of Congresbury. Formerly two Roman 
roads met here, and he considered it was most probably the site 
of an ancient Bishopric, and a place of great importance. An 
-inspection of the parish registers, which the Vicar, Mr. Hunt, had 
courteously left out to view in the parvis chamber over the north 
porch, was made, and the party having resumed their seats 
passed beneath a mistletoe-bearing acacia and the fine village 
cross to the parish of Churchill, whence the Marlborough family 
derives its name. 
Landed at the foot of Dolebury Hill, the day’s chief business 
began. Ascending a winding pathway between cottages, the 
entrance to the camp was found blocked by a locked gateway, with 
a forbidding notice that the sacred rights of the rabbit-warren were 
not to be invaded without due permission. A geological hammer 
