28 TWELFTH ANXUAL MEETING. 



h;i3 a finc illnminatcd and gilt mantlc-plccc, a noble stair- 

 casc, and scvcral panelled roonis. The liousc contains a 

 secret cliambcr, probably intended foi" tlie concealmcnt of 

 a Roman Catholic priest. It was built by au ancestor of 

 the Tvnte family, to wiiom the cstate belongs. 



The party next drove towards BuoCKLEr Combe, and 

 passed iip tliat fine and vomantic dcHle. Tbc sides are 

 deeply wooded, and high liniestone rocks appear above and 

 between the foliage. The loftiest of these rocks reaclies a 

 heiglit of 300 feet. But few spots are there in Somerset 

 exhibiting a niore ^vild and varied bcauty. Descending 

 from Bi'oadhill-down, and passing close to Barley-lodge, 

 once the residence of Hannah More, tlie party arrived at 

 Wringtox. 



The house in Avhich Locke was born adjoins the church- 

 yard. The churcli is a noble edifice. The lofty navc, 

 with its ckistered pillars and foliated capitals, the shafts 

 carricd iip and su{)|)orting angels witli shields, the 

 fine Perpendicular windows and clcrestory, present a 

 picture rarely equalled in parochial churches. The clianccl 

 is smal!, compared with tlie chui'ch, and in the Decoratcd 

 style, having been rctained from an earlier building when 

 the other part of the church was rebuilt. 



At Wrington and Yatton Mr. Freeman enlarged at 

 greater Icngth than elsewhcre on the principal features of 

 those two splendid churches ; but as liis rcniarks chiefly 

 consisted of a demonstration on the spot of criticisms made 

 in liis several papers before the Society, it may be 

 enongh to refer to bis two essays in the Society's volumes 

 für 1851 and 1852, cspccially to the ci-iticisms on Wriiigton 

 tower at p. 55 of that for 1851. One or two points, how- 

 cvcr, it may be well to mcntion here. The nave woulJ 

 have been much finer had there been slx bays iustead of 



