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the grounds were extended from 70 to 1000 acres. The core of the 

 house and many of the smaller rooms are really survivals of the 

 old house of Orlando Bridgman, altered by Adam. The writer thinks 

 that the three storey bay windows that flank the great portico of Adam 

 were probably part of the older house, and were only cased over by 

 Adam. The author discusses at some length the probable alterations 

 made by Adam in the existing house, much of which he contends still 

 remains. The Golden Gateway is Barry's work of 1834, and the Italian 

 Garden was laid out by him before 1849. " There can be few better 

 pieces of architectural gardening than the Bowood terraces." The 

 subsequent alterations of Adam's work inside the house by Dance and 

 Barry are indicated. The chapel appears to have been by neither of 

 these architects. 



Notes on the History of the Parish of North Wrax- 

 hall, Co. Wilts, with a life of the late Rector, 

 Francis Harrison, MA., at one time Fellow, 

 Dean, and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford. By 

 W. J. Lewis, MA., FES, Fellow of Oriel College, 

 Oxford, Professor of Mineralogy in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge. London : Society for Pro- 

 moting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland 

 Avenue, W.C. 1913. 



Gloth, 7fin. x oin., pp. viii. + 197. Illustrations : two portraits of 

 Bector in 1860 and 1906 ; Norman Door of Ohurch ; S. side of Church ; 

 St. John's Church, Ford, General View at E. End ; Birdseye View of 

 Baths at Roman Villa. 



The Bev. Francis Harrison died March 10th, 1912, after having held 

 the Rectory of North Wraxhall from 1867—1908, during the whole of 

 which time he was, as his tombstone in Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath, 

 sets forth with no suspicion of exaggeration, " a devoted pastor, a rare 

 teacher, an unfailing friend." During the later years of his life he 

 had been occupied in gathering materials for the history of the parish, 

 part of which he embodied in the " Annals of North Wraxhall," pub- 

 lished in 1906. A considerable portion of the notes and transcripts 

 which he had accumulated remained unpublished at his death, and is 

 has been a labour of love on the part of a former pupil and devoted 

 friend, Professor Lewis, to edit this material, to weld it together, to 

 add a Life of the Rector, and descriptions of the Churches and the 

 memorial window erected to his memory. In this work he has, he tells 

 us, been assisted by Mr. Anthony Story Maskelyne, whose hand it is 

 not difficult to recognize in the large section of the book dealing with 

 "The Manor and its Lords," "The Rectors," and "The Chantry and 

 its Chaplains." It is this section which gives its chief value to the 

 book from an historical and topographical point of view, and in the 

 60 pp. or so which it comprises , is contained a large amount of family 

 history chiefly derived from research among original documents, or from 



