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to these lands can be found in the Fry collection at the museum in 

 Dorchester. Over the main door is the date 1650, the year in which 

 the building was restored or altered. Among the attractions of the 

 place are two mediaeval barns with fine timbered roofs. 



BRADFORD ABBAS CHURCH. 



The Rev. Canon WICKHAM received the visitors and sketched for 

 them the history of the church from its construction by Abbot Brad- 

 ford, of Sherborne, about 1480. The style is Perpendicular throughout, 

 the material employed being Hamdon stone. At the eastern end of 

 the south wall stands a small doorway, or priests' porch, which was 

 much admired, as were the armorial corbels in the nave. The tower is 

 justly regarded as the best example of its class within the county, 

 indeed, those who saw it for the first time might well have believed 

 that they were over the border in Somerset. 



Mr. ALFRED POPE commented upon the shaft and steps of the 

 churchyard cross, which is in a fair state of preservation, and assigned 

 its date to the fifteenth century. 



CLIFTON MAYBANK. 



By the permission of Mr. Daniell, who was away from home, the 

 Club was enabled to inspect the exterior of the Manor House and its 

 surroundings. 



The HON. SECRETARY observed that they were then looking at a 

 portion only of the great house wherein the Horseys lived in the 

 sixteenth century, the builder of which was probably Sir John, who 

 died in the year of the Armada. The ancient gateway, attributed to 

 Inigo Jones, had been taken down and removed to the park at Hinton 

 St. George, and a portion of the main fabric was transferred ^o 

 Montacute House. 



Chief among the surviving architectural details is the magnificent 

 oriel window placed high up in the wall of the western, or garden, 

 front. There was, at one time, a chapel adjoining the house, but 

 nothing more than the turf-covered foundations are now to be seen. 

 Some pieces of sacramental plate are, however, still preserved in 

 Bradford Abbas church. 



NEWTON SURMA VILLE. 



The Rev. E. H. BATES HARBIN, addressing the Members assembled 

 near the porch of his Jacobean homo, said that he knew the unbroken 

 history of that manor from the period when Emma de Waie married 

 a member of the Norman family of Salmunvill. This lady died in 

 1221, owning lands in Niveton and leaving Philip de Salmunvill as 

 her son and nearest heir. The manor was owned by several other 



