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most interesting feature of the Westbury Meeting. The Vicar, 
the Rev. H. Cave-Brown-Cavr (who has since died before the 
completion of the work which was so near his heart), gave an 
account of the restoration carried on gradually by the Committee, 
who, at the Bishop’s instigation, have been instrumental in pre- 
serving this grand, and in many respects unique, example of the 
transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style, from the 
ruin which must inevitably have overwhelmed it in a few years if 
it had not been taken in hand intime. The magnitude of the work 
made it altogether beyond the power of the parish to raise the 
necessary funds, and the Committee, feeling that the interest of 
such a building belonged rather to the county, or indeed to the 
nation, than to the parish of Edington alone, appealed far and wide 
for funds, with the result that the most necessary repairs have been 
executed, though there is much still to be done. 
The Members of the Society had every opportunity of judging of 
the loving care bestowed on every part of the building by Mr. 
Ponting—from the old glass, so carefully replaced in the transept 
windows, to the late and curious plaster roof, restored and made 
secure with great trouble and difficulty, in the nave. It wasa 
_ privilege to see the building under the guidance of one who knows 
every stone of it, as he does, and we are happy to say that the 
paper on this Church read by him at the Salisbury Meeting will, 
by the courtesy of the Council of the Archeological Institute, be 
reprinted in the Wagazine. 
After enjoying the welcome refreshment of a cup of tea at the 
vicarage, by the kind hospitality of the Vicar, a move was made for 
Westbury, taking Bratton on the way. There was some doubt 
whether there would be time for this, but happily the programme 
was adhered to; for, even after Edington, it was generally agreed 
that Bratton Church, both in its architecture and its situation » Was 
quite one of the most charming things we had seen. Moreover 
the inhabitants of the village had prepared a welcome for the Society 
and its President such as we met with nowhere else on our excursions, 
the bells ringing merrily and numbers of the people turning out to 
greet their visitors. The little eruciform Church, with its central 
