Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . e money - had not yet beenraised. As the members of the Society left the building they would havean opportunity, if they so desired, of contributing to the restorationfund. The church of Wickhamford consists of a nave, chancel, and westerntower. The three-decker, the screen, the western gallery (the front ofwhich remains), the seats, and the royal escutcheon, are all of seventeenthcentury date. The carvings of the Virgin and Holy Child on the pulpitare very unusual and very interesting. On the north side of the chancel is
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . e money - had not yet beenraised. As the members of the Society left the building they would havean opportunity, if they so desired, of contributing to the restorationfund. The church of Wickhamford consists of a nave, chancel, and westerntower. The three-decker, the screen, the western gallery (the front ofwhich remains), the seats, and the royal escutcheon, are all of seventeenthcentury date. The carvings of the Virgin and Holy Child on the pulpitare very unusual and very interesting. On the north side of the chancel is a double alabaster monument,supported by five pillars and two pilasters, on the two slabs of which lierespectively the effigies of Sir Edmund and Lady Sandys, and EdwinSandys and his wife Penelope. On the front of the tomb are the kneeling figures of the sons anddaughters, and above are -the figures of Faith, Hope, Charity and Time,and various coats of arms on shields or lozenges. The Sandys family bearor, a fesse dancette between three crosses crosslet fitchy THE GRANGE, WICKHAMFORD. 42 Transactions for the Year 1901. On the north side of the sanctuary is a flat stone to the memory ofPenelope Washington, bearing the family arms, arg. two bars gules, in chiefthree mullets of the second. These arms are supposed to be the original of the Stars and Stripes onthe flag of the United States. The Grange, a beautiful half-timbered mansion, has been well restoredby the owner, Lord Sandys. On leaving Wickhamford the party drove to Campden, where lunchwas partaken of at the Noel Arms Hotel. After lunch the annual meetingof the Society took place in the Town Hall. In the absence of Mr. Edgar Flower (chairman of the Local Com-mittee), the Rev. T. Carrington (vicar of Campden) presided at theopening of the proceedings, and, in the course of a few remarks, said hestood in the peculiar position of not being an archaeologist. Greatdifficulties had been placed in the way of his acquirin
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