Excursion on Thursday, Auyust %^th. IS 



Mr. Bowly's grounds were first visited to see the newly-discovered 

 Boman inscription — on which he had read a paper the night before 

 — and also a Roman tombstone now preserved there. The very- 

 interesting Church was afterwards seen, with its very curious and 

 rich transition Norman chancel arch, its tall tub font with network 

 ornament covering it, and the fine south doorway with its sculptured 

 tympanum and beak head and chevron-ornament round the arch. 

 The sculpture in the tympanum presents a diflficulty in the kneeling 

 figure on the right side. The figure opposite is plainly S. Peter 

 receiving the key from the Saviour, and it was suggested that 

 probably the other kneeling figure may be that of the donor or 

 builder of the Church. 



Here some ancient glass was exhibited which had once belonged 

 to the Church, but was now lying loose in the house of one of the 

 Churchwardens, and the Rev. W. Bazely called attention to it and 

 expressed, in the name of the Members of the Gloucestershire 

 Society, the earnest hope that measures would at once be taken to 

 have it re-inserted in the windows. This ended the programme for 

 the day, and the carriages brought the party back to Cirencester by 

 7.30, after an excursion which a fine bright day without dust, for 

 the rain the day before had laid it, and the country looking its best, 

 combined with the places visited to render very delightful to those 

 who took part in it. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 25th. 



For this day two excursions had been arranged, which were open 

 to Members of either Society — the larger number of the Gloucester- 

 Members going by train to Marlborough, and driving thence to 

 Silbury and Avebury, whilst the smaller party, consisting mostly 

 of our Wiltshire Members, numbering twenty-seven, started to visit 

 a series of Churches in the extreme north of Wiltshire which had 

 never been visited by the Society before and could not readily be 

 reached from any centre within the county itself. 



Leaving Cirencester at 9. 15, the first stoppage was at the charming 

 little hamlet Church of Shorncote, where, as throughout the da", 

 Me. Ponting acted as the Society's architectural guide. 



