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At the Church the Members were met by the Vicar (the Rev. F. J. Green- 

 ham). Time permitted of only a brief inspection. The organ was built 

 by Christopher Schneider in 1726. It was originally the gift of George I. 

 to the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, where it was frequently 

 played upon by Handel. It was bought and presented to Wotton by one 

 of the former Vicars. Special attention was directed to the tomb of Katharine 

 Lady Berkeley, who died in 1392, and was the founder of the Grammar 

 School (that bears her name) in 1384. 



Near the Church is the Blue Coat School, founded at least as early as 

 1637. It is now a Public Elementary School. 



From the School the Members went on to Wotton Hill, to obtain a general 

 idea of the geology and geography of the surrounding country. 



GEOLOGY 



In Old Town, Mr Richardson said they were above the horizon of the 

 Marlstone. When excavations for sewers were made some years back, multi- 

 tudes of ammonites belonging to the genus Harpoceras were obtained and 

 many were still to be seen on the cottage window-sills and rockeries. 

 They were characteristic of the bottom-portion of the Upper Lias. The clay 

 dug at the brickworks (Plate XVa). near the Tabernacle is Upper Lias.' It 

 is more loamy in its upper portion, graduating upwards into the Cotteswold 

 Sands. The Cotteswold Sands are admirably exposed in a pit alongside the 

 road that climbs Wotton Hill, where they are succeeded by the Cephalopod- 

 Bed and this by the Scissum-Beds of the Inferior-Oolite Series. 



The freestone exposed in the large quarry belongs partly to the Lower 

 Limestone division of the Inferior Oolite and, presumably, partly to the 

 Lower Freestone. A rubbly-bed, six inches thick, he thought, was on the 

 horizon of the Pea-Grit. 



Above the freestone come the Upper Trigonia-Grit, very thin repre- 

 sentatives of the Dundry Freestone and Upper Coral-Bed, and Clypeus- 

 Grit.2 



, From the knoll at the clump of trees (planted to commemorate Queen 

 Victoria's 1887 Jubilee) a fine view was obtained over the surrounding country, 

 while to the north-east is the higher ground of Symonds Hall Hill, formed of 

 FuUer's-Earth Clay and Great Oolite. Wotton is now supplied with spring 

 water which issues from near the junction of the Great Oolite with the under- 

 lying Fuller's-Earth Clay. 



In Wotton-under-Edge the party was entertained to tea by Mr Perkins 

 at his highly-interesting residence in Long Street. The house was once a 

 cloth-mill plus the owner's residence. In the drawing-room is hand-painted 

 wall-paper of the date 1688, and in the dining-room fine panelling and carved 

 mantel-board of oak.' 



In the garden Mr Perkins pointed out a carved Roman mile-stone, found 

 on Symonds Hall Hill, which he had had built into his garden-wall. 



Mr Perkins was very warmly thanked for his hospitality and for his 

 valuable assistance in drawing up the programme of the meeting. 

 The party left Charfield Station by the 5.49 p.m. train. 



1. See Richardson and Webb. Proc. Cheltenham Nat. Sci. Soc., vol. i., pt. 4 (1910), p. 247. 



2. The sections in the quarries near Wotton are described in detail in the " Proceedings" 

 of the Club, vol. xvii., pt. i (1908), pp; 309-311. 



