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orientation of the chancel to the north, but very few to 
the south. The chancel window and the tower are very 
late perpendicular (1400). The first church at Clent was erected 
shortly before 1199. There was at one time a great lawsuit 
about the tithes and patronage. The parish registers date from 1562. 
During part of the Commonwealth marriages took place before a 
magistrate, and many of these are entered, but the register so as to 
have them entered was taken to places many miles from Clent. In 
the minute books the erection of a singing gallery is mentioned, but 
subsequently they did not place there the persons who had the best voices 
but the persons who first had seats there, who transmitted their rights 
by descent, and in several cases the right to a seat in the singing gallery 
was purchased. An amusing incident connected with the parish is men¬ 
tioned in the same minute book. At the end of the last century the Vicar 
of Clent incurred the displeasure of his parishioners, who ordered the 
clerk to give notice of a vestry meeting to take into consideration the 
conduct of the vicar. Unfortunately for the clerk, who sat in the 
bottom tier of a three-decker, when the vicar realised what notice the 
clerk was giving out, he quickly suppressed him by throwing a large 
cushion on to his head. The members next visited a gravel pit in the 
Bunter conglomerate, in which some fossils derived from the Llan¬ 
dovery sandstone have quite recently been discovered. The fossils 
have been identified as Favosites, Strophomena, Linstromia, and the 
stem of a crinoid. Hence the way was continued up Clatterbach 
Valley, between Clent and Walton Hills, where several good sections 
of the brecciated Permian were seen, and on to St. Kenelm’s, which has a 
perpendicular tower richly adorned with pinnacles and gargoyles. 
There is also a fine tympanum over the west door. The fact was 
mentioned that on the restoration of this church several frescoes were 
discovered representing the different events connected with the legend 
of St. Kenelm, which were destroyed, but not before Mrs. Akroyd 
took drawings of them. These drawings were published in some 
paper circulating in or near the district, but it cannot be ascertained 
which it is. The summit of Clent was the next point, and from here 
a more extensive view than usual was seen. It included the Ber- 
wyns, Longmynd, Clees, Radnor Tump, Black Mountain, Aber¬ 
gavenny Sugar Loaf, Malvern, Cots wolds, Edge Hill, and several other 
lesser heights. Below could be traced the ground which was once covered 
with the water forming the Severn Straits and dividing England from 
Wales, and to the action of which so many geological changes are due. 
Immediately below is the land formerly comprised in Clent Heath, 
upon which a fierce battle was fought between the Romans and 
Britons, in which the latter were defeated, but only in their turn to 
defeat the Romans (on Rome failing to support them) a few years 
later in another fierce battle around Clent and Walton. Continuing, 
the party went through Hagley Park, and arriving at Hagley dispersed 
to their several destinations. 
SEVERN VALLEY NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.—July 31. 
A large number of members of the above Club met at Bewdley, and 
proceeded to Cleobury Mortimer. Carriages were in waiting, and the 
party were driven to Craven Place, which is situated on the Cleobury 
and Ludlow main road, near to the top of the hill, and close to the 
Dhu stone quarries on Hoar Edge, where most interesting examples 
have been exposed of curved basaltic columns, similar to those in the 
Island of Staffa. The first geological feature examined was the great 
quarry of Dhu stone. Mr. C. J. Cooper, who kindly acted as guide to 
