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the Members roimd, pointing out and explaining the many points 

 of interest in this interesting and unusual Church. After some of 

 the many remarkable bits of domestic work in the village had been 

 noticed a move was made to the ABBEY, over which the visitors 

 were conducted by the owner, who pointed out the remarkable 

 discoveries made in the cloisters during the recent works of repara- 

 tion, the tliirteenth century doors and windows of the chapter- 

 house, and the lavatory and its curious frescoes. Having seen the 

 Abbey thoroughly — including the two fine stone tables, one in the 

 muniment room and the other in the chamber above it in the comer 

 tower — the party left, after according a hearty vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Talbot for the admirable way in which he had performed the 

 duties of cicerone, both here and elsewhere during the Meeting. 

 Unhappily at this point a heavy thunderstorm began, which lasted 

 more or less for a couple of hours. This caused WICK FARM and 

 its fifteenth century barn to be cut out of the programme, and the 

 carriages made aU possible speed to LYPIATS, and thi? shelter of the 

 luncheon tent, erected there by the kindness of Mr. Fuller, who, 

 with Mrs. Fuller, joined the party at this point. During lunch the 

 raiu descended in torrents, and things looked so bad that most of 

 the Members had almost decided to make the best of their way to 

 the railway, when, the clouds beginning to lift, less despondent 

 counsels prevailed, and the carriages were once more filled for the 

 carrying out of the remaining items on the programme. The visit 

 to Jaggards House having been cut out, CHAPEL PLAISTER was 

 the poiut first made for. This little building had only been opened 

 for service three weeks before the Society's visit, having been re- 

 paired most judiciously and furnished with the simple fittings 

 necessary at the cost of £169. In future it will be used as a hamlet 

 chapel of the parish of Box. Previously it had been for centuries 

 put to base uses, as a bakehouse and a stable, but the walls remained 

 for the most part uninjured, with the very curious niche over the 

 entrance — supposed to have been intended to hold a lantern which 

 should show a light down the hiU to direct pilgrims on their way 

 to Q-lastonbury to this little hospice erected for their shelter. The 

 E.KV. J. Spoonee, Curate of Box, through whose exertions this 



