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After breakfast the ancient Peel Tower at the Vicarage and 

 the Parish Church were inspected. The latter was built about 

 1320 in a style which may be termed the Edwardian Gothic. It 

 is in a wonderful state of preservation, though, doubtless, much 

 is due to the restoration made in 1850. About 1867 the chancel 

 was added by Merton College, Oxford. In the porch were a few 

 very ancient sculptured slabs of the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- 

 tury. The interior of the sacred building, while bearing the 

 dignified look peculiar to an ancient structure, has many evidences 

 of modern taste and culture. Several stained glass • windows 

 have been erected to the memory of members of the chief families 

 of the parish, and memorial slabs stud the walls, including one 

 to Mr Shafto Craster-Craster, captain in the 8th King's Regiment, 

 who died of fever at Kangra, British India, in 1856. The in- 

 scription states that a tablet has been placed in the church at 

 Julundur by his brother officers and others who appreciated his 

 character and his many virtues. The Crasters are buried in a 

 vault underneath the family pews, above which are the arms of 

 the family, bearing the mottoes — beneath a raven — "Cum 

 Sanctis in ccelo," and surrounded by cherubs — "In ccelo quies." 

 There are also memorial slabs to mark the resting-place of the 

 family of Wood, who now inherit the name and estates of the 

 Crasters. There is also a slab to the memory of George Henry 

 Grey, lieutenant-colonel of the Northumberland Light Infantry 

 Militia and equerry to the Prince of Wales, who died in Decem- 

 ber, 1874. In the south-western aisle are slabs to the memory of 

 several of the former vicars and their relatives, dating from 1714 

 downwards. For an account of the church Mr F. E. Wilson's 

 careful and accurate "Architectural Survey of the Churches in 

 the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne " may be referred to, pp. 134-5, 

 with plates. 



After a survey of the village, the members went down a lane 

 by Embleton Burn, fringed with willows, willow herb, and sedges, 

 till the stream was crossed by a "rustic bridge," composed of two 

 large monolith stones, which spanned the stream. Afterwards, 

 on right and left, were banks of whin, broom, and brakens, till 

 Dunstan Steads was reached. 



The walk to Dunstanborough and along the coast was much too 

 rapid to permit of any ninute examination of the botany of the 

 locality, but the following plants were found by Capt. Norman, 



