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features of the Church—the fine western tower and the beautiful 
chapel at the end of the North aisle. 
Then on to Cutteridge House, whence, after a short stay, the 
archeologists walked to the neighbouring Brook House. Here, in 
what are now used as the stables and cow-houses of the farm-house, 
is an extremely interesting range of buildings, which, as Mr. 
Ponting pointed out, formed the domestic offices of an early fifteenth 
century house of considerable importance ; and although they are 
now put to baser uses, yet they still remain in good preservation— 
the original walls, floors, and roofs, the windows with their iron 
grilles, the doorways and fireplaces being still in si/u and compara- 
tively uninjured. These buildings were the subject of as much 
discussion as time allowed of, and many of the party would willingly 
have lingered longer had it not been necessary to continue their 
journey. 
The next item on the programme was Seymour’s Court, but 
before the party arrived there they were hospitably stopped by the 
way and entertained by Mr. W. R. Brown, at his shooting lodge. 
After doing justice to the very welcome refreshments provided, a 
short drive further brought the party to the charming old manor- 
house, now—like Brook House—occupied as a farm. Mr. Pontine 
read the history of the present condition of the building, as far as 
a hurried examination of it sufficed to reveal it. He pointed out 
that the back of the house, the very picturesque porch and room 
over it, with the chimney stacks and one end of the house, were 
all the work of about the middle of the fifteenth century, whilst the 
front walls had been re-built, and windows of the period constructed 
in them at the same time that the house was lengthened in the 
time of James I. 
Continuing on the Somerset side of the border Road Church was 
soon reached, where the Rev. J. B. Mepigy gave many interesting 
details of its history, and Mr. Ponrine, as before, described the 
architecture. 
At Beckington—which was the next place visited—luncheon, by 
general consent, took precedence of sight seeing ; after which the 
interesting Church was examined, and the study of domestic 
