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The Forty-Fourth General Meeting. 



some details of a Saxon Church of much interest have existed 

 hidden away under rough cast, &c, quite unsuspected, to the 

 present time. It seems due chiefly to Mr. Hill's knowledge and 

 enthusiasm that the value of this discovery has been duly appreciated 

 by those who have the restoration of the Church in hand, though 

 unhappily a good deal of damage in the way of the destruction of 

 the old Saxon plaster had been done before Mr. Hill came on the 

 scene. This paper also evoked a good deal of discussion, the 

 audience being evidently much interested in the discovery. Mr. 

 Hill's account of the Church will be printed in The Archaeological 

 Journal. 



A series of really fine enlarged carbon photographs of the 

 principal buildings in Bradford were exhibited by Mr. W. Dotesio, 

 and he generously presented the Society with two admirable views 

 of the Saxon Church. 



THUESDAY, JULY 29th. 



The carriages again left Bradford at 9.30, and passing through 

 Holt without stopping, halted at Broughton G-iffbrd Church, 



where Mr. An ye acted as cicerone. Some discussion arose as to 

 the age of the arcade of the north aisle — most of the architectural 

 Members being unable to agree with Mr. Ad ye in placing the date 

 anything like as late as the 15th century. 



After leaving the Church the carriages halted for a moment in 

 front of the Old Manor House in the village, which still remains 

 much as it was built by Sir John Horton in the year 1629, and 

 then proceeded to Moilkton, where the occupier — Mr. Blake — 

 most courteously received the party and allowed them to wander 

 over his house from top to bottom. Though this fine old house is 

 visible from the railway, few of the Members had ever had an 

 opportunity of visiting it before. In his History of Broughton 

 Grifford, the Eev. J. Wilkinson {Witts Arch. Mag., vol. v., p. 341) 

 repeats a local tradition as to the manner in which Mr. Samuel 

 Shering, whose portrait still hangs in the dining-room, became 

 possessed of the property which belonged to the Duke of Kingston, 

 for whom he acted as steward ; Mr. Blake, in showing the picture, 



