19° The Environs of Bath. 



chancel was taken down and an apse erected. The old east 

 window consisted of two lights with representations of our 

 Saviour, and of a Bishop, and Robert Walsh's initials. 

 There are two brasses to the memory of Robert Walsh and 

 his wife. The font and tower are considered to be early 

 English. The belfry has one old bell, which is thus in- 

 scribed, " Laudem Resona Michaeli." The Rectory house 

 occupies the site of an old Roman villa, several remains of 

 which have from time to time been discovered. 



Newton St. Lo. 3)^ miles W. — This village is charmingly 

 situate on the summit of a hill to the left of the Lower 

 Bristol-road. The view of Newton Park, and of the surround- 

 ing country, will well repay the visitor for his short climb. 

 The suffix St. Lo is the family name of the former possessor 

 of the manor. At the Conquest this was one of the nume- 

 rous possessions of the Bishop of Coutance, and was known 

 in Domesday as "Niwetone," and is in the hundred of 

 Wellow. It is not known precisely when this property came 

 into the possession of the St. Lo family, or, as they were 

 formerly called, " de Sancto Laudo"; but they held it until 

 the latter end of the 12 th century, and the last lord of 

 Newton of this name was Sir John St. Lo, Knt. He was 

 succeeded by his daughter, and heiress, Elizabeth, the wife 

 of William Lord Botreaux ; and from him it descended to 

 her son and grandson; and the latter dying without. male 

 issue, it passed to his daughter and heiress, Margaret, the 

 wife of Sir Robert Hungerford, and from them to their son 

 and grandson, Thomas Lord Hungerford, and from his 

 descendant to Lord Hastings' family. It ultimately came 

 into the possession of the family of the late William Gore 

 Langton, esq., whose son now owns it. The church, dedi- 

 cated to the Holy Trinity, was in 1857 restored and much 



