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they have faded almost beyond recognition. One, on the South 
wall, supposed to represent St. Christopher, has somewhat unusual 
aceessories, a mill-wheel, house-door and bucket, &c. Possibly 
the picture may have been intended for St. Julian Hospitator, the 
saint to whom the Chapel at Farley Hungerford is dedicated. 
The tower of the Church is good ; it was for many years 
incomplete, but was finished by the present rector with battlements 
and pinnacles well harmonising with the rest of the building. 
Yate Court is at some distance from the Church, and is disap- 
pointing, for very little remains of the old buildings, and though 
these are picturesque and ivy-covered the effect is spoiled by the 
farm buildings erected against them. The gate-house, XIV. 
_ Century, remains, and part of the moat. The house was a 
fortified dwelling, and was occupied by the De Wyllingtons in the 
XIII. and XIV. Centuries, and by the lords of Berkeley while 
_ Henry VIII. and Edward VI. were in possession of their castle. 
Dropping two of their number at the railway station, the 
rest of the party went on to Horton Court, a Manor House 
partly XII. Century Norman, and partly XVI. Century Tudor 
Gothic. The North Wing is one of the very few unfortified 
Norman buildings in England. The outer door is hand- 
some, and there is a good Norman doorway, above which, 
on an upper floor, is the Chapel, now a mere room, with 
modern windows, and behind it a priests’ room. There is a 
pretty lawn behind the house, on which are a magnificeut tulip 
‘tree, and some fine Oriental plane trees, not yet in their full 
beauty owing to the lateness of the season. As the Rectory had 
‘inadvertently been passed, and is at some distance from the 
Church, which was not open, the latter was not visited. It has a 
few interesting features and is of the XIV. Century, with later 
“restorations, though its appearance externally is modern. It was 
growing late, however, so the party returned to the station, 
whence the 6.17 train conveyed them to Bath by 7.5; the day 
fine and sunny, but the breeze across Chipping Sodbury 
