WINCHESTER. 



the six ancient fire-buckets hanging from the gallery, Cardinal Beau- 

 fort's drinking vessels, candlesticks, and salt-cellar all of a size verily 

 Brobdingnagian. 



The Rev. J. C. M. MANSEL-PLEYDELL, as acting president, 

 thanked Canon Causton cordially for giving the club so full 

 and so interesting an account of the place. Although the 

 club were very proud of their own county of Dorset, yet 

 they appreciated keenly the many places of historic and 

 atiquarian interest beyond their borders, and were glad 

 to renew their acquaintance with Winchester. 



Before leaving the Hall the members refreshed themselves 

 with tea. 



From the hall the party strolled to the church, which gives, 

 both from the outside and the inside, such an impression of 

 loftiness as well as solidity. The Norman architecture is 

 most imposing, but many of the party scarcely appreciated 

 the attempt made by Butterfield some 50 years ago to repro- 

 duce in the chancel the original colouring of the walls, the 

 crudity of the colour arousing general comment. The triptych, 

 Canon Causton observed, is variously attributed to Albrecht 

 Diirer and Mabeuse. The lectern, with the figure of a parrot, 

 is said to be unique. The " bird " window in the northern 

 transept attracted notice. 



Mr. W. de C. PBIDEAUX, the authority on monumental brasses, 

 called attention to the interesting brasses in the church. There is 

 within the altar rails an exceedingly large one in memory of John de 

 Campden, warden of the hospital, who was canon of Southwell in 1382. 

 It is notable for being the earliest of the brasses, only three in number, 

 recorded bearing the ancient verbal emblem of the Trinity. Then, 

 on the floor at the west end of the nave, Mr. Prideaux pointed out 

 that a brass to John, son of John Wayte, and his wife Agatha, was 

 inlaid on an old chantry altar slab of Purbeck marble, with a con- 

 secration cross still plainly discernible in one corner. Haines says 

 that in his day one could make out four crosses. There are, we believe, 

 only ten examples known of brasses so inlaid on altar slabs. 



Canon Causton kindly led the party into the charming 

 Master's Garden, with its fishponds and heavily-laden fruit 



