452 The Sixtieth General Meeting. 



February, 1748. He died 1779, and his son, James Sutton, was 

 M.P. for Devizes from 1765 to 1774, and High Sheriff in 1785. 



Mr. W. H. Butcher read an interesting paper on the history of 

 the CASTLE. 1 



In the afternoon a special train conveyed the party to BRAD- 

 FORD-ON-AVON". On their arrival, at 2.11 p.m., they proceeded 

 at once to the TITHE BARN", which was described by Mr. A. 

 W. N. Burder, F.S.A. and from thence walked to THE HALL, the 

 exterior of which was inspected by kind permission of Mr. John 

 Moulton, whose father bought the house and extensively restored 

 it in 1840. Mr. Brakspear pointed out that although almost the 

 whole of the visible exterior is actually modern, it was a faithful 

 copy of the original work, so far as was possible from the indications 

 remaining of it when the work was taken in hand. 



At the SAXON CHURCH Mr. A. W. N. Burder discoursed to 

 a portion of the audience inside whilst the Rev. E. H, Goddard 

 read his notes on the exterior to an overflow meeting outside. Mr 

 Burder drew attention to the narrow chancel arch with socket 

 holes under the abacus, apparently for a pair of small gates, and a 

 cutting in the arch immediately above the abacus for a beam seems 

 to suggest that the tympanum was originally filled in. The doorway 

 in the north porch is out of the centre to allow, it is supposed, of 

 an altar against the east wall as at Bishopstone, Sussex, andEscombe, 

 Durham. The jambs of the arches and doorways have pilaster 

 strip work, which is a feature of late Saxon work, seen at Brigstock, 

 Earls Barton, and Barnack, Churches believed to be of the same 

 period as Bradford, and also in the later Churches of Wittering 

 and Diddlebury. Mr. Burder knew of no instance of this strip 

 work recorded in Churches of an earlier date. The two sculptured 

 angels over the chancel arch with napkins over their arms are not 

 in their original position. They were lower down on either side of 

 a crucifix which has disappeared. As to the date of the building : 

 originally in 1857 Canon Jones and all the other authorities were 

 of opinion from a study of its style that the Church belonged to 

 the 10th or 11th century, until in 1871 Canon Jones came across 

 1 Printed in full in Wiltshire Gazette, Aug. 28th, 1913. 



