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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 



Directors 



EXCURSION TO LEDBURY and EASTNOR 



Tuesday, September 12th, 191 1 

 The Rev. F. W. Carnegy, S. Bickham and L. Richardson 

 (Report by L. Richardson) 



The Members met at Ledbury Station at 11. 21 a.m. Thence they 

 drove to the Church, where they were met by the Rector, the Rev. F. W. 

 Carnegy, and Mr S. Bickham. 



The tower of the Church is separate from the rest of the building. In 

 the Church is some excellent Norman work, but the most interesting feature 



EffisV of a Priest in Lcdhury Church. 



is an effigy of a priest. In Bloxham's " Companion to Gothic Architecture " 



it is stated : 



" Till the fourteenth century sculptured sepulchral effigies of ec- 

 clesiastics who had attained no higher grade than that of priesthood are 

 rare. A fine and interesting example of the thirteenth century is, how- 

 ever, preserved in Ledbury Church, Herefordshire. This, a recumbent 



