Hi. SHERBORNE MEETING. 



were cased with Perpendicular panelling. But the clerestory 

 was entirely Perpendicular. The restoration of the nave was 

 begun under his old friend and godfather, the Rev. John 

 Parsons, vicar of Sherborne, and the nave and transepts were 

 then completed. The work was done mainly by subscription, 

 partly by a rate, then compulsory, and partly by a large donation 

 made by the late Lord Digby. There seemed at the time no 

 likelihood of the chancel being restored ; but when Lord Digby 

 died and his nephew, the late Mr. George Wingfield Digby, 

 came into the property, he said that he would restore the choir 

 at his own expense as a memorial to his uncle. Hence the 

 choir was restored most beautifully under Mr. William Slater as 

 architect. 



Taking Mr. Wingfield Digby's arm, on account of his 

 defective sight, the Vicar conducted the party round the ambu- 

 latory dividing the chancel from the lady chapel, and on the 

 way called attention to the large Te Deum window in the south 

 transept, designed by Pugin. The lines on the monument 

 beneath the window, said Mr. DIGBY, were by Alexander Pope, 

 who used often to come to Sherborne. He would, he said, show 

 them later in the afternoon some trees that he planted. The 

 VICAR pointed out the sounding board of the pulpit in the old 

 abbey, now nsed as a table. 



Leaving the Abbey the party walked by Castleton Church to 

 the entrance of 



THE OLD CASTLE. 



Mr. DIGBY, very kindly acting as cicerone, pointed to the 

 rising ground opposite, where the besiegers' cannon was posted 

 jvhen the Cavaliers stood siege in the castle. 



The Koundheads approached gradually by the old method of parallel lines of 

 trenches, getting nearer and nearer, until finally they effected an entrance. It 

 was said that one gentleman with a fowling piece shot no fewer than 17 of them 

 when they were coming in. He supposed that he paid the penalty when they got 

 in. The castle was' then blown up, and reduced to the ruin which they now saw. 

 Castleton Church, which they noticed in the foreground, and which was also 





