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Beach, of Fittleton, who bought the Keevil estate in 1680 from 

 Thomas, son of Edmund Lambert. The house itself, a fine example 

 of its period, externally unaltered and well preserved, appears to 

 have been built in 1580 by one of the Lamberts, the porch being 

 added, as his initials on it showed, in 1611 by Edmund Lambert, 

 to whom, perhaps, is also due the fine Jacobean screen in the hall. 

 The earlier 16th century panelling does not belong to the house. 

 Mr. Richardson here also acted as guide and told the story of Anne, 

 daughter of Michael Hicks Beach, who, falling in love with William 

 Wainhouse, curate of the parish, was for two years locked up by 

 her father in the porch room over the entrance, from the window 

 oE which she could see her lover as he passed along the road. At 

 the end of the two years her father offered her the choice of her 

 lover or his fortune. She chose the former and survived her 

 marriage only three months. 



The next stop was at STEEPLE ASHTON CHURCH, where 

 the Rev. E. P. Knubley pointed out the many interesting features 

 of the Church. Dr. St. John Hope dwelt on the great dignity and 

 interest of the building ; it was, he said, very rare in any part of 

 England to meet with sumptuous vaulting of this kind. The re- 

 mains of the glass, too, were of much beauty. The white rose of 

 York and the rayed suns must have been in the windows before 

 1483, because Edw. IV. died in that year, and his successor was 

 not likely to perpetuate his memory. He explained the two figures 

 in the east window of the south chapel — a king crowned and 

 wearing a blue robe, seated on a throne, holding an orb surmounted 

 by a cross, and a queen seated and crowned, wearing a purple 

 robe,with hands folded over the breast — as representing Christ and 

 His bride, the Church. In the same window a hand pointing to 

 a lamb on a book are portions of the figure of St. John Baptist. 



THE MANOR HOUSE, of Elizabethan and Jacobean date, 

 with the picturesque red brick 16th century (?) granary standing on 

 stone columns in the garden, was next visited, and Mr. and Mrs. 

 W. H. Cary received the party most kindly and offered refresh- 

 ments, of which many members availed themselves. 



EDINGTON CHURCH, the next item on the programme, was 



