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together, in a way more usiial in tlie east than the west of 

 England, Sorae Decorated windows remain, especially 

 soine square-licaded ones wlth remarkable tracery. 



Tlie Kectouy-house has a very remarkable porcli, the 

 avcli of which is richly ornamented with an imitation 

 of the well-known tooth-oi'nament of the 13th Century, 

 but really bullt about 1470 by the executors of Bishop 

 Beckington, the arms over the doorway, cut in the original 

 stonework, being those of the see of Wells, and of the 

 executor?, Pope, Sugar, and Swann, the same as in the 

 Vicars' Close, at Wells, so that this house was bullt about 

 the same time with that werk. An engraving of the porch 

 is given in the present volume. 



It is remarkable that in the chapel of the Vicars' Close 

 somo fragments of Early English sculpture of the time of 

 Bishop Joceline are built in as old material in the spandrils 

 of the window arches. This would lead us to suspect that 

 tlie tooth-ornament hcre also is old material used again, as 

 often happens, but in this instance it does not appear to be 

 the ease ; it secms to be clcarly copied, although such an 

 example is almost unlque; probably those executors had a 

 taste for the earller style, and introduced it when they 

 could. 



At Yatton the manor-house is so exactly on the same 

 plan as Clcvedon Court, that thcre can be no doubt that it 

 is a copy of it on a rauch smallcr scale, and at a later period 

 the style is Purpcndicular, but early in the style, probably 

 about the same age as Tickenham Court, cir<:a 1110. 



At Yatton, where the cxcursion terminatcd, the fine 

 church met Avith great admiration. i\Ir. Frecman again 

 commented at lengtli on the buildiiig, but for most of bis 

 criticisms we may again refer to the Society 's volume für 

 1852. He also pointed out the gradual way in which the 



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