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Evington Church. 
By C. E. Pontine, F.S.A. 
(The greater part of this paper was read at the Salishury Meeting, August 
5th, 1887, and is now reprinted from the Archeological Journal, vol. xlv., 
p. 43, by kind permission of the Council of the Royal Archeological 
Institute.) 
N his admirable and exhaustive paper on the History of 
<i Edington Monastery, published in the Wiltshire Archao- 
logical Magazine, vol. xx., p. 241, Canon Jackson modestly states 
that “he only pretends to make a little contribution of some details 
relating principally to the Monastic Establishment ;” and also that 
‘the grand old Church deserves—what it has not yet obtained—a 
volume to itself, and one that should be rich in illustration.” 
When J had the honour of being invited to read a paper on 
Edington Church it oceurred to me that—whilst leaving the writing 
of a volume on the subject in more able hands—it might not be 
without interest to some who are not well acquainted with the 
building if I ventured to supplement what Canon Jackson has said 
with a few details of the Church itself which have come before my 
notice in my long acquaintance with it, and in particular during 
my recent closer study of this and other works of Bishop 
Edington. 
In illustration of my remarks I venture to make use of the plans 
which I have prepared for the restoration of the Church—I use 
the word restoration in its most conservative sense—and of other 
drawings which I produce for this special purpose. 
To make my remarks the more intelligible I will first state 
shortly the history of the Monastery and its founder, culled from 
Canon Jackson’s more elaborate details—the main authority for 
which is the Register of Edington, forming No. 442 of the Lans- 
downe MSS. in the British Museum, and I here wish to express 
my obligation to the worthy Canon for so readily placing these 
results of his researches at my disposal. 
