PAPERS, &c. 
phil Ol Church, 
PAPER READ BY THE REV. F. WARRE, TO THE SOCIETY, 
ON THE HILL AT BURROWBRIDGE, SEPT. 27, 1849. 
N the extreme point of the Mendip Hills, where 
the river Axe, falling into the Bristol Channel, 
divides them from the promontory of Brean Down, 
stands—the very picture of desolation—the now de- 
serted and ruinous church of Uphill, well known 
as a land-mark to ships bound up the channel. A 
more bleak’ and desolate spot can hardly be ima- 
gined. The village, of which till lately it was the 
parish church, is situated at the bottom of thehill ; 
there is not a human habitation near it; and when 
the red sun sinks into the dark clouds which the 
stormy west wind hurries up from the Atlantic, 
and leaves the angry channel to dash its waves in 
darkness against the rocks of Brean, one no longer 
wonders at the querulous spirit which pervaded the 
writings of Gildas, who was once an inhabitant of 
this spot, or the unmeasured abuse which he heaps 
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