4 The Forty-Fourth General Meeting. 



papers will bo found at a later page of the Magazine. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 28th. 



The party for the first day's excursion, which numbered twenty- 

 nine at lunch time, left the Town Hall at 9.30, and drove to 

 W estwood, where the Church and Manor House were visited, 

 under the guidance of Mr. C. S. Akye. One of the most in- 

 teresting points about the Church, of late 15th century archi- 

 tecture, for the most part, with some remnants — as the priest's 

 door in the chancel — of the 13th century, is the considerable 

 amount of old glass which lemains in the east and south windows 

 of the chancel. ' In the central light is the Crucifixion, and in the 

 upper lights SS. Peter, Andrew, John Baptist, and Michael 

 weighing souls — whilst in the lower side lights are figures holding 

 shields with the emblems of the Passion. These emblems are the 

 whips, crown of thorns, the mocking, myrrh, spear and sponge, 

 lanthorn, nails, purse, ladder and reed, and another which is un- 

 decipherable. The " mocking " and the " myrrh " are treated in a 

 very curious way — the former typified by a hand pulling a beard, 

 the latter by a pestle and mortar. Considerable remains of the 

 rood-screen have been made up into choir stalls, the woodwork 

 where deficient having been copied in cast iron. The tower, with 

 its picturesquely capped turret and richly pannelled belfry stage, 

 is perhaps the finest of the small group of towers of somewhat 

 similar design, of which Yatton Keynell is another notable example, 

 most of which are found in this corner of the county. 



The Manor House, now sunk to the condition of a farm- 

 house 1 stands close to the Church ; and if we except Great Chalfield, 

 there are few more charming groups of buildings to be found in 

 Wiltshire than the two sides of the old house, with the Church and 

 its fine tower showing just beyond them. The interior, too, has 

 very much of interest — panelling, fine plaster ceilings, and good 

 fireplaces — whilst the sundial now standing on the side wall of the 

 forecourt, with its numerous hollows, each of which held a separate 

 dial — though somewhat like that from Ivychurch, (described in vol. 



1 Illustrated in " Elyard's " Some Old Wiltshire Homes." 



