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long-continued drought had mapped out the foundations of the 
west and part of the south walls of the old BELL TOWER in the » 
Close, with their buttresses, almost as clearly on the turf as they 
- could have been drawn on paper. 
The ANNUAL DINNER took place at the County Hotel—where 
also the evening CONVERSAZIONE was held at 8.30, p.m., some 
forty-five members being present. At this meeting Tux Bisvor 
took the chair—Mr. Tauzor taking his place when he was obliged 
to leave later on in the evening. The first paper was a valuable 
and suggestive one by Tue Rev. R. H. Ciurrersuck, on 
“SALISBURY CONFRATERNITIES,” a subject which he had made 
his own. This was followed by a selection of music most kindly 
provided by Canon Carpenter, Miss Husszy, and other ladies ; 
_ after which a paper, or rather address, by Mr. Doran Wess, 
giving a short sketch of the history, and a lucid account of the 
principal features, of ROMSEY ABBEY, to be visited on the morrow, 
brought the evening’s proceedings to a close. 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1éru. 
_ The party, leaving Salisbury by the 9.15 train, got out at DEAN, 
and proceeded to the fine old red brick BARN, with its curious 
buttresses on the south side, probably of very late fifteenth century 
-date—originally the tithe barn of Mottisfont Abbey, but afterwards 
used as a “Deer Barn,” in which the deer of the forest were shut 
up or fed when necessary. Above the barn, embowered most 
picturesquely in trees, stands what remains of the OLD CHURCH 
OF WEST DEAN, consisting of the south aisle or chantry chapel, 
now retained as a mortuary chapel—the body of the Church having 
been pulled down in 1868, when the new Church was built. The 
windows of this little building are of fourteenth century date— 
those on the north side having been built in within the arches by 
which the aisle joined the Church. It contains three or four large 
monuments of the seventeenth century Evelyns—two of the later 
ones most curiously enclosed with folding iron doors or shutters— 
whilst a small brass commemorates George, son of John Evelyn, 
he author of Sywa. The old house of the Evelyns has disappeared, 
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