202 The Fortieth General Meeting. 



thrown up, and so would have ascertained the earliest possible date 

 of the work itself. 



At the Conversazione in the evening a paper on the Corporation 

 Plate and Insignia of Wiltshire was read by the Rev. E. H, 

 GoDDAED : the paper being illustrated by full- sized drawings of all 

 the Wiltshire maces. This was followed by an account by Mr. B. 

 H. CusNiNGTON of an important find of urns and of the kilns in 

 which they were baked, in the neighbourhood of Pewsey, in 1S93. 

 Both these papers will be found at a future page of the Magazine.. 



FRIDAY, JULY 28th, 



On Friday morning a start was made from the Town Hall, in' 

 breaks, at 9.15. The first stoppage was at SUTTON VENEY. Here 

 the really grand new Church, by Mr. Pearson, was first visited, and 

 then, by the kindness of the Rector, the- Rev. A. W. Booker, the 

 party proceeded to the Rectory, where the fine fourteenth century 

 roof of the hall of what was formerly the manor-house — now cut 

 up into attics — was inspected, as well as much good furniture ia 

 different parts of the house. The remains of the old Church, of 

 which only the chancel is preserved intact — the nave being roofless- 

 and in ruins, were next visited ; and here Mr. Talbot read a few 

 Botes on the architecture, pointing out the Normau' doorway on. 

 the north of the nave, and the interesting Eai'ly English mouldings- 

 of the caps of the crossing piers. 



Entering the breaks again the party drove past the little ChapeP 

 of Tytherington, which had nothing to detain them, to UPTON 

 LOVELL, where the Rector, the Rev. H. F. Crockett, gave aa 

 account of the Church — which has just been admirably restored by 

 Mr. C. E. Pouting — and also some interesting details of the 

 history of the parish.^ This Church, although without any very 



^ Among other things the Vicar told the following interesting story, as related 

 to him in 1874 by the oldest man in the parish : — The castle being besieged (date 

 of the occurrence not precisely specified), before it was taken Lord and Lady 

 Lovel escaped, she with her infant son to the woods round Boyton, from which 

 she eventually made her way to the North of England — he to the river Wylye, 

 where he took refuge under a bridge by which the road from Upton Lovell to 

 Boyton crosses the river. The castle having been taken the soldiers hunted 



