34 THIRD QUARTERLY MEETING. 
Third Quarterly Meeting held at Frome, July 10th, 1850. 
F. H. Dickinson, Esgq. Vice President, 
in the Chair. 
Plurning Feeting. 
HE Chaırman briefly addressed the meeting on the 
benefits likely to be expected from the advancement of 
the Society, and was followed in the same path by Mr. 
C. E. GILEs. 
The Rev. H. D. Wıcknam read a paper on the parish 
church of Frome, now known as St. Peter’s, but believed to 
have been originally dedicated to St. John the Baptist. 
The earliest church occupying the same site was built by 
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, A.D. 705. The present 
building, about 135 feet in length, and 48 in breadth, was 
constructed at different periods during the 13th, 14th, and 
15th centuries. Under the eastern window repose the 
remains of the venerable Bishop Kenn. A brass plate to 
his memory has been lately placed in the chancel under a 
beautiful obituary window, also to his memory, presented 
by the Marchioness of Bath. 
After the reading of the paper the members visited the 
Church, where they could not fail to be struck with the 
contrast which the recent restoration of the chancel pre- 
sents to the dilapidated state of the other portion of the 
building, and the unsightly deformities which the laxity of 
the past century suffered to gather round the body of the 
building, and which we may hope the devotion and better 
taste of the present may speedily sweep away. 
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