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very perfect, and in the chancel arch are still the hooks from 
which the rood and the attendant figures of the B.V.M. and St. 
John were supported. The church formerly belonged toa college 
of priests, and there are two parvises, over the north and 
south porches. The former can be entered from the porch; the 
entrance to the latter is inside the church. In the north parvise 
lived for many years an old parish pensioner, Granny Nanny, 
whose supposed tomb was pointed out in the churchyard. It isa 
weather-worn ledger tomb, with the effigy of a female or a priest 
of very early date. In the vestry, which was formerly used by the 
priests as a school, are two black letter alphabets on the wall. 
There was a tradition, to which the height of the window sills lent 
colour, that the chancel was furnished with choir stalls, containing 
misereres, and it has recently been ascertained that these sereres 
have been found in Exeter. The effigies on the altar tombs are 
those of Lord and Lady Botreaux and Sir F. Hastings and his 
wife. Lady Botreaux rebuilt the church in 1427. 
Mrs. Boys very kindly procured for the party the entry to the 
Manor House, now in the occupation of Colonel Kelly, but the 
property of the Bennetts, once wealthy traders of Bristol. The 
mansion is Elizabethan, and was probably built by one of the 
Hastings family. The date, 1581, is over the door in the great 
hall. 
At Blackford, which was next visited, the church, dedicated to 
St. Michael, has a Norman arch in the south porch, thrust out of 
shape, with two dissimilar columns. There is a curious low 
Norman font, and in the chancel a stone to a former rector, 
Barnaby Dicke, dated 1620. 
Passing the prettily situated church of Compton Pauncefoot, an 
old Perpendicular church with a spire, which could not be visited 
for want of time, and noting a crescent of cottages, an unusual 
feature in a village, South Cadbury was reached. The tower of 
the church is peculiar, the stair turret ending in a small square 
tower with pinnacles. The church has been carefully restored, 
