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remarkable architectural features, is now a charming example of a 

 little village Church. 



BOYTON CHURCH, the next item on the programme, has, on 

 the other hand, a number of architectural features of very great 

 interest, but the general effect of the building inside has been very 

 much injured by the injudicious "restoration" perpetrated some 

 years ago — when even the fine effigy of Sir Alexander Gifford had 

 its face entirely " restored '' and the whole surface of its armour 

 carefully scraped away and destroyed, rendering the figure as it now 

 exists quite misleading as to details of costume — a flagrant example 

 of the irreparable mischief often done in the process of smartening- 

 tip Churches and everything in them during the progress of work 

 of restoration. Here Mr. Pontinq called attention to the many 

 points of interest in the building, and then the party proceeded to. 

 the adjoining MANOR-HOFSE, over which they were most kindly 

 allowed to ramble by Mr. J. H. Martin, who also provided 

 light refreshments for those who felt the need of them. Many 

 would have been glad to linger longer over this fine old house, which 

 remains almost unaltered in its exterior from Elizabethan times, and 

 its picturesque garden — but the Secretary's trumpet warned them 

 that time was pressing, and the breaks started for STOCKTON*- 

 Here the first thing to be done was to sit down to a sumptuous 

 lunch in a tent in the park — provided, as on the previous day, by 

 the generosity of the Local Committee— the only drawback bein^ 

 the presence of a large contingent of wasps, who attended without 

 invitation. After votes of thanks to the Local Committee, and 

 more especially to Messrs. Morgan, Welsh, and Bleeck, had been> 

 most cordially passed, the party proceeded to the lawn,, where Bishop 

 HuYSHE Yeatman, of Southwark, brother of the owner of Stockton^ 

 Col. Yeatman Biggs, gave a most interesting account of the house,. 



everywhere for Lord Lovel without success, until one of them suggested that his- 

 favourite dog, who exhibited great distress at the loss of his master, should be- 

 let loose and followed. The dog led them to the bridge, on which he stood 

 whining and refused to go any further. The soldiers promptly looked underneath^ 

 discovered the unhappy fugitive, dragged him out, and put him to death, ia 

 remembrance whereof the bridge goes by the name of " SufEerer's Bridge " to- 

 this day. 



