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On Ghington Chueh, and Aemorials of 
ite Aistory. 
By the Rey. ArrHur Fane. 
It devolved upon me at the last year’s Archeological Meeting 
at Salisbury, to endeavour to elucidate the antiquities and throw 
some light upon the historical associations of an ancient church of 
much beauty and rare interest in the Vale of Wylye,—a church, 
too, which was the centre of many stirring historical traditions, but 
which remains at once a monument of the munificence, splendour, 
and architectural style of past ages, and of the neglect and want 
of taste of more recent times. 
It chances, from near residence, that another church has specially 
interested me, which in all particulars seems a twin church to that 
of St. Mary’s, Boyton. The Church of All Saints, Edington, to 
which I purpose calling the attention of my brother archeologists, 
is a far grander and more imposing building than its sister church; 
it is also as remarkable a specimen of the transition from one style 
to another, as the mortuary chapel of the Giffards at Boyton. As 
in the latter building we see the struggle between the harsher and 
more severe times of early English, gradually blending into the 
trefoil or quatrefoil of Decorated architecture, and the fuller foliations 
of the architecture of the middle of the 14th century warming the 
acute cuspings and plain mouldings of the 13th; so in the church 
of Edington, we may observe the straight and more formal lines of 
the Perpendicular dispersing the elegant tracery and cutting the 
flowery developments of the 14th century. We see at Boyton, so 
to speak, Henry the 3rd contending with Edward the Ist; whilst 
at Edington we see the struggle of Edward the 8rd with Richard 
the 2nd. 
