SHERBORNE MEETING. 



Nearly one hundred persons assembled for the meeting at 

 Sherborne on Tuesday, July 26th. Most of them travelled by 

 the trains which reached Sherborne at 11.59 and 12.10, and, on 

 the arrival of the latter train, the party, which included all the 

 officers of the Club, walked to the school, where they were 

 cordially received by the Head-Master, the Rev. Canon West- 

 cott, M.A., who then took charge of them. 



Canon WESTCOTT first called attention to the remains of the 

 old chapels, now incorporated in the school buildings. The 

 three chapels at the east end of the Abbey Church, and 

 dedicated to Our Lady, were built, the Lady Chapel proper in 

 the 1 3th century and the two others in the i3th century. These 

 latter were two chapels of one bay north and south of the Lady 

 Chapel. There were interesting remains of them in the old 

 Schoolmaster's House built by the Governors in 1560, in the 

 days of Jewell, when they converted the Lady Chapel into the 

 residence for the Head-Master. He invited them to go upstairs 

 and see these interesting remains. The chapel of St. Mary-le- 

 Bow on the south side was of a single bay, with a Perpendicular 

 vault existing absolutely perfect. The bay of the Lady Chapel 

 proper was found in the bedroom, to which they went up very 

 steep stairs. To this room Canon Westcott led the way, the 

 members following as fast as the tortuous and abrupt stairs 

 would admit. In this little room, over-arched by the sole 

 surviving bay of the Lady Chapel, the present Vicar of Sherborne 

 was born, and thus Canon Lyon had the distinction of being the 

 only beneficed clergyman in England who could say that he was 

 born under the roof of his own church ! The explanation was 

 that the Vicar's father, Dr. Ralph Lyon, was Head-Master of 

 Sherbcrne School. Leading the large party next to the school- 

 house dining hall, he stated that it stood upon the site of the 

 original school-house of the Sherborne School. Whether 

 Sherborne School belonged to the Monastery or to the Bishop 

 of Salisbury was a point upon which doctors differed. 



