PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHZEOLOGICAL AND 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 
1855, PART U. 
— 
PAPERS, ETC. 
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Dungter Priury Church. 
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BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A. 
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MONG the various papers which I have now, for 
A some years past, annually communicated to the 
Somersetshire Archxological Society, there has not yet 
been any which has at all elosely approached to the 
nature of a monograph. I have generally dealt rather 
with groups of churches, and with the characteristics of 
whole distriets, than with detailed examinations of indi- 
vidual buildings. But the place of your present meeting 
scems to suggest a different course on the present occasion. 
The Priory Church of Dunster, though, as a work of 
architecture, immeasurably inferior to the glorious struc- 
tures on which I have commented upon in other parts of 
the county, has nevertheless, for the ecclesiastical anti- 
quary, an interest of a peculiar kind, and for myself more 
particularly so, as its more remarkable features throw 
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