WINCHESTER. Ixi. 



TWO-DAYS' MEETING AT WINCHESTER. 



September 12th and I3th, 1911. 



Some twenty-seven members assembled at mid-day, and 

 after lunch at the Royal Hotel (the Club's headquarters for 

 this visit), they set out in brakes for 



HEADBORNE WORTHY CHURCH, 



notable as containing some undoubted work of the Saxon 

 period. 



The party were received with courtesy by the Rector (the Rev. T. 

 H. Davies), who indicated the limits of the original Saxon Church, 

 still noticeable externally by the " long and short " coign stones. 

 The west wall of the nave, which is said to be untouched Saxon 

 masonry, is pierced with a small rude Romanesque doorway, the 

 segmental arch of which is very irregular, and one impost considerably 

 higher than the other. But this doorway, although undoubtedly, 

 like the wall in which it appears, of Saxon date, is not in situ, for 

 during a restoration of the church in 1868 the doorway was removed 

 from the south wall of the nave and inserted in the west wall. The 

 west wall was originally the end of the building ; but, probably in the 

 16th, or early in the 17th, century an annexe was built on to it, now 

 communicating with the church through the Saxon doorway. Above 

 the doorway on what w T as originally the exterior wall may still be seen 

 clearly traces of mutilated figures in relief of Christ on the Cross, with 

 St. Mary and St. John standing by, and the Father's hand stretched 

 down from Heaven. The mutilation of these figures, which had 

 become a famous local shrine, is attributed to Bishop Home, of 

 Winchester. In the chancel the Rector pointed to three problematical 

 sedilia and a two-light Early English window, with a quatrefoil in the 

 apex, the lights having the unusual feature of a transom. He 

 mentioned that before the Reformation traces were left of wooden 

 shutters affixed to the lower part of the window, the shutters being 

 used, it was supposed, for dispensing alms to the poor without. On 

 the other side of the chancel, affixed to the wall, is a finely -preserved 

 pre - Reformation brass to John Kent, " formerly a scholar of 



