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xxvii., p. 236) seems an even more elaborate specimen. Altogether 

 this house would well repay fuller illustration and more careful 

 examination than it has yet received, for Mr. Elyard's one drawing 

 and sketchy account of it does not by any means exhaust the subject. 



From this point the carriages drove, and their occupants walked, 

 for the most part by precipitous ways, to Farleigh Hunger ford, 

 where The Castle was first explored, still under the leadership 

 of Mr. Adye — the border of the County of Wilts having been 

 crossed some yards on the further side of the stream which runs 

 below the Castle walls. Of the Castle itself the gate towers and 

 two corner towers of the inner court, with parts of the curtain walls, 

 are the chief portions remaining — the domestic buildings having 

 entirely disappeared. The chapel, however, remains intact, and is 

 used as a sort of museum — the walls being hung with a large 

 collection of arms and armour, mostly of the Civil War period. 

 The grand tombs of the Hungerforcls in the projecting chapel are, 

 of course, the principal objects of interest, but there are many 

 things worth seeing — the fine ironwork of the grille and nice glass 

 in the windows (of various nationalities and dates, chiefly 16th and 

 17th century) . In a vault under this chapel, seen through the bars of 

 an iron gate, lie the lead coffins of those whose effigies appear above. 



Farleigh Church was described by Mr. Adye, on the 

 strength of an existing consecration deed, as having been built late 

 in the 15th century by Walter, Lord Hungerford, but Mr. Pontine 

 pointed out that, judging by the architecture of the nave, the body 

 of the Church would appear to be rather of 14th century date — 

 altered, and with the tower added, late in the 15th century. In 

 the glass of the south window of the chancel appear the Hungerford 

 arms, charmingly introduced in the centre of three interlaced sickles . 

 There is also old glass in the east window. 



At this point an adjournment was made, for lunch, to the 

 Hungerford Arms, after which the party proceeded through the 

 beautiful grounds of the modern castellated mansion, "Farleigh 

 Castle," to Norton St. Philip, where Mr. Harold Brakspeab 

 acted as cicerone. The Church was first visited. The fine n\ r es1 

 tower, with its prominent "buttresses 'stopping under the projeoting 



