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The Forty- Third General Meeting. 



the terraces and walks alone remaining to mark its site. The Vicar 

 (the Rev. E. Wells) acted as cicerone to the party, pointing out 

 three piscinse in the new Church, as well as an Early English 

 column with sculptured cap, now serving as a reading-desk, and 

 several good thirteenth century tiles let in to the wall at the back 

 of the piscinae — all of which came from the Church destroyed in 

 1868. A stone coffin in the mortuary chapel and a stone with I N 

 on it, in the new Church, were pointed out as having come from 

 the Church destroyed in the seventeenth century. Having seen 

 the Churches, some of the party accompanied the Vicar to the 

 vicarage, where a large COLLECTION OF EOMAN POTTERY (much 

 of it New Forest Ware), iron objects (including a good many 

 sandal cleats), glass fragments, &C, from the Roman villa excavated 

 some years ago between the station and the vicarage, is preserved. 



Entering the train again for a few minutes, and getting out at 

 Dunbridge, the party walked a mile or so to MOTTISFONT, where 

 Mu. Doran Webb pointed out the most notable features in the 

 CHURCH — the Norman chancel arch — Renaissance monument of 

 the Sandys family in the chancel — and the considerable remains of 

 good old glass in the heads of the windows of the chancel, as well 

 the figures in the four upper lights and quatrefoil of the east 

 window — the remainder of the window being good modern glass 

 designed to match the old. Crossing the road the Members found 

 themselves in the gardens of MOTTISFONT ABBEY, which, with the 

 house itself, were thrown open to them by the kindness of Mr. 

 D. Meinertzhagen. The house itself is featureless, though it 

 stands on the site of the abbey, and portions of the buildings are 

 incorporated in the modern walls ; they are only to be seen, how- 

 ever, in the thirteenth century undercroft, now forming the cellars, 

 and in the kitchens. Preserved here are several remarkable 

 specimens of Church needlework, the most notable being a portion 

 of a chasuble of English work of the fifteenth century, in good 

 condition, having upon it the crucifix with the figure of the Father 

 above, and four separate figures of saints. There is also a very 

 curious representation of the Last Supper — the disciples reclining 

 at the table, which is said to have been the antependium for the 



