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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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. parishioners, the former wishing to call it after the patron saint of thefamily, while the latter preferred it to be known as the Chapel of St.James. There were several altars in the church, in addition to the St.James or St. John. Little traces of these remained, for many of the Transactions for the Year 1902. alterations were carried out at a time when the architect sacrificed every-thing for architectural beauty, often taking all historical interest out ofthe building. Mr. T. G. Simmonds supplemented Colonel Brambles remarks bydrawing attention to the collar of SSS on Judge Newtons effigy, and tothe founders tombs m the De Wyke Chapel; also to the crowned figureof the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Annunciation at the back of the Newtontomb in the Newton Chapel. Mr. Simmonds also offered to the companycopies of a list of vicars of Yatton from the earliest times, compiled by theformer vicar, the Rev. John Harrison. Leaving the church, the party repaired for lunch to the Railway Hotel,
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F. J. Hirst, Photo. WRINGTON CHURCH FROM SOUTH EAST. WRINGTON. and then returning through the village of Yatton they passed to the southof Cadbury Hill, where there is a small camp (there are three Cadburycamps in Somerset), and continued under the high ground to Wrington,.obtaining on the way a really fine view of the western extremity of Mendip.It extended over about fourteen miles, from Black Down, the highest pointof Mendip on the east, by Wavering Down and Crooks Peak to the clumpof firs on Bleadon Hill, and then to Brean Down, south of Weston. Thespire seen to the south soon after leaving Yatton, is that of CongresburyChurch, one of the best of the Somerset spires. Wrington first appeared in a charter purporting to be granted in 904,which is, however, identical down to the name of the estate granted with aMercian Charter of 903, by which King Edward, Ealdorman JEthelred,.and iEthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, granted land at Princes Risborough,

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