— — lime, 30 grains
— — soda, 121.3 grains. {200}
The importance of this spring is generally acknowledged, and it is matter
of regret that proper accommodations for the advantageous use of the
water have not been more effectually provided. A stone cistern, within a
little shed, is the only receptacle for the water, the refuse from which,
after being confined within a covered drain for a few yards, flows into
the brook, and has produced an artificial morass, whose surface (from the
deposition of iron oxyd) is covered with an ochery scum.
The care of the spring and baths is entrusted to the occupier of a
cottage on the spot.
On an elevated situation in an adjoining meadow stands the primitive
parish church of Sutton, a characteristic specimen of the little Norman
churches erected in villages. The west front is crowned with a cupola,
and displays a modern window, but those on the other sides of the fabric
are of the earliest kind, narrowing towards the exterior surface of the
wall. The town may be regained by different routes over the meadows,
which lead to