xlvi. SALISBURY AND STONEHENGE. 



THIRD SUMMER MEETING. 



SALISBURY AND STONEHENGE. 

 Monday and Tuesday, August I5t?i and Kith. 



Present : The President and Mrs. Richardson, the Hon. 

 Secretary, and nearly 60 members. From headquarters at 

 the County Hotel the party paid a visit to 



THE CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, 



where they were received by the Rector, Canon SANCTUARY, 

 and Mr. DORAN WEBB gave an interesting description of the 

 building, which was rebuilt in the 15th Century. 



The handsome open-timber roofs, the fine monumental brasses, and pre- 

 Reformation glass, notably the remains of a Jesse window, were all duly 

 admired, and, in the vestry, the rich 15th century embroidery, originally 

 supposed to be part of a cope, and afterwards used as an altar frontal. Canon 

 Sanctuary exhibited pages of an ancient psalter a Sarum autiphoiiary with 

 both words and music. 



From St. Thomas of Canterbury the party walked to the 

 old Poultry Cross close by. 



Mr. DORAN WEBB said that the cross was described in 1530 as the "High 

 Cross," and it was added "It is the place where poultry is sold." To the 

 original cross, of the 14th century, were added by a local enthusiast, the elder 

 Pugin, the beautiful pinnacles and niches, which, owing to soft stone being 

 used, looked now as old as the original parts of the cross. 



" THE OLD GEORGE " was then visited. 



An early 15th century hostel, in which decay has been happily arrested in 

 the original oak beams. Mr. Doran Webb said it was pretty certain that the 

 inn took its name from St. George of dragon fame, and not from George 

 Merriott, of Somerset, who was alive in 1410. In 1457 the inn was damaged 

 by fire. The fac3 carved on the front of a massive oak corbel was supposed 

 ti be that of Henry VI., ob. 1461. While the party w.re in the so-called 

 " Great Hall " Mr. Webb paid a warm tribute to the zeal of the proprietors 

 for the preservation of the ancient woodwork and its uncovering so as to be 



