VOL. XX. (2) 
FIELD MEETINGS, 1919 
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an unusual ground plan, the polygonal tower with irregular sides being set in 
line with the chancel and nave. 
In each side of the upper stage of the tower there is a two-light Norman 
window, each pair within a containing arch. The early pointed western arch 
of the tower (or chancel arch) has a rare ornament in the compound chevron, 
which, being deeply undercut, resembles exaggerated “ dog-tooth ” work. 
The ornament of the arch of the south doorway consists of a combination of 
an unusually large chevron pattern with, at intervals, a series of finely- 
sculptured large “ stiff stalk,” making a singularly handsome design. 
In the President’s opinion the windows in the upper part of the tower 
clearly indicate its original use as a room rather than a belfry. The question 
will probably always remain an open one whether the structure was originally 
(c. 1130) intended for a church at all, or converted by Roger de Berkeley into 
one and then given by him to St. Peter’s at Gloucester during Stephen’s 
stormy reign. If such was the case the building will have been perhaps 
intended for a fortified residence, which would account for a great deal of its 
peculiarity. The circular font is decorated with bands of nail-head and 
dog-tooth (“ projecting pyramid ”). It is of similar date with the chancel 
arch, but possibly a little nearer 1190. 
The famous long (chamber) barrow known as “ Hetty Pegler’s Tump,” 
near the road from Uley to Frocester, was next visited, and described by the 
President, who called attention to the general similarity of plan on which 
many of the chambered Long Barrows w'ere built, and the commanding sites 
chosen for these enduring tributes to the stone-age chiefs. The barrow has 
been frequently described, and full particulars may be read in the Archceological 
Journal, vol. xi., p. 315, the Proceedings of this Club, vol. iii. , pp. 184-88, the 
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch. Soc., vol. v., p. 86, and 
Blunt’s Dursley, p. 227. 
By the kind permission of Mrs. Trent-Stoughton, Owlpen old Manor House 
was then visited. The older middle portion of the many-gabled building, 
which was probably built early in the fifteenth century and is situated in a 
deep coomb, was added to by Thomas Daunt in 1616. It appears that the 
place-name is certainly not derived from that of the bird, as unwary students 
of heraldry have been long inclined to believe, but most probably from- an 
Anglo-Saxon bearing such a name as Olla. The Domesday and later forms 
of the name of the Manor is Ollopenne, meaning the penfold of one Olla. 
The name has not unnaturally been influenced by “ Owl ” and by “ Old ” in 
later times. The Anglo-Saxon for owl is not “Olla” but “ Ule.” Figures of 
the owl are, however, represented in stone on the gateway of the new mansion, 
which has been built on more elevated ground. The coat of the Owdpenn 
family is a “ punning ” coat borrowed from (?) that of Hill of Alveston, and 
Papworth does not give it. The “ Ollepenns ” of the thirteenth and fourteenth 
century holding the Manor of Owlpen were sub-tenants in Kingscote of the 
Kingscotes. The later “ Oldpens,” who married with the Daunt family, were 
not armorial and did not carry the Norman prefix “ de.” Like the Hobby 
