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features of the Church — the fine western tower and the beautiful 

 chapel at the end of the North aisle. 



Then on to Cutteridge House, whence, after a short stay, the 

 archaeologists walked to the neighbouring* Brook House. Here, in 

 what are now used as the stables and cow-houses of the farm-house, 

 is an extremely interesting 1 range of buildings, which, as Mr. 

 Ponting pointed out, formed the domestic offices of an early fifteenth 

 century house of considerable importance ; and although they are 

 now put to baser uses, yet they still remain in good preservation — 

 the original walls, floors, and roofs, the windows with their iron 

 grilles, the doorways and fireplaces being still in situ and compara- 

 tively uninjured. These buildings were the subject of as much 

 discussion as time allowed of, and many of the party would willingly 

 have lingered longer had it not been necessary to continue their 

 journey. 



The next item on the programme was Seymour's Court, but 

 before the party arrived there they were hospitably stopped by the 

 way and entertained by Mr. W. R. Brown, at his shooting lodge. 

 After doing justice to the very welcome refreshments provided, a 

 short drive further brought the party to the charming old manor- 

 house, now — like Brook House — occupied as a farm. Mr. Ponting 

 read the history of the present condition of the building, as far as 

 a hurried examination of it sufficed to reveal it. He pointed out 

 that the back of the house, the very picturesque porch and room 

 over it, with the chimney stacks and one end of the house, were 

 all the work of about the middle of the fifteenth century, whilst the 

 front walls had been re-built, and windows of the period constructed 

 in them at the same time that the house was lengthened in the 

 time of James I. 



Continuing on the Somerset side of the border Road Church was 

 soon reached, where the Rev. J. B. Medley gave many interesting 

 details of its history, and Mr. Ponting, as before, described the 

 architecture. 



At Beckington — which was the next place visited — luncheon, by 

 general consent, took precedence of sight seeing ; after which the 

 interesting Church was examined, and the study of domestic 



