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the Gloucestershire border, and in a country new to the great 

 majority of the fifty-five Members and Associates who took part 

 in it. Two motor busses and several private motors left the Bell 

 Hotel at 9.20 and proceeded to SHIPTON MOYNE, where the 

 REV. W. SYMONDS, who had taken the entire responsibility for 

 this day's Excursion, described the remarkable series of tombs and 

 effigies which have happily survived the rebuilding of the Church. 

 Thence the route lay to DOUGHTON, where the fine old Manor 

 House, built probably in 16*jJ7, belonging to Mr. A. C. Mitchell, 

 and now a farm house, was visited. The next stoppage was at 

 CALCOT, where the barn of what was once a grange of the Wilt- 

 sliire Cistercian Abbeyof Kingswood,with its inscriptions,recording 

 its building in 1300, and its re-building in 1728, together with the 

 very rudely sculptured head of a Eoman tombstone built into the 

 wall, were seen. BEVERSTON CHURCH was next visited, with 

 its stone pulpit, partly original, of the fourteenth century ; and 

 then the party adjourned to the Castle and thoroughly examined 

 that very interesting structure from top to bottom, under MR. 

 SYMONDS' very able guidance. Then back again to TETBURY, 

 which apparently possessed no special features of interest of its 

 own, beyond the attraction of luncheon at the White Hart Hotel, 

 to which some fifty-five Members sat down. Leaving Tetbury at 

 2 p.m. the motors proceeded to CHAVENAGE HOUSE/ wliere 

 MR. AND MRS. LOWSLEY WILLIAMS received the Society with 

 much kindness and hospitality, throwing the very interesting house 

 with its adjoining chapel open for their inspection. AYENING 

 CHURCH was the next point visited, a building full of interest, 

 with good Norman work, and built in among other fragments in 

 the west wall of the north aisle part of a very small coped Pre- 

 Norman gravestone of the same character as that in the porch of 

 St. Sani[)son's, CrickhuU^ 



Climbing u\) Llie hill nut, of Avening, tlit^ louti' lay onci^ more 

 through Tetbury and on to IA)NG XKWNTON CHl'KCH, re-built 

 in 1840 and 1870, but retaining tlit; three western bays (»f the 



' Sir /Irisf'if (HI, I aioKc. Arrh. Soc. 7'r'iiis., xxii. 



