170 CHAPELRY OF ARNE. 



Edith. 22 Eliz. Joan^ one of the co-heirs of Nicholas Cadbmyy 

 held it, value 11 Ss. 8d. In 26 Eliz. William Pitty in right of 

 Edith his wife, held it. It was granted to William Pitt, &c., 

 value 71. 16s. Bd. who seems to have bought the right of the 

 other co-heiresses, and this grant might be procured to strength- 

 en his title to the whole. It seems to have remained in the Pitt 

 family till the year 1850, when it was purchased, with other 

 property, of George Pitt Rivers, fourth Baron Rivers, by John 

 Scott, second Earl of Eldon. 



Near the centre of the Vill stands a small Chapel, dedicated 

 to St. Nicholas, almost at the foot of a steep hill. It consists of a 

 nave and chancel under one roof. The architecture is Early 

 English, i. e. the style prevalent in the 13th century. On the 

 south side is a porch and buttress, between which is a square- 

 headed window of two trefoiled lights, a Perpendicular insertion. 

 The remaining windows, including that at the east end, which 

 is a triplet, are Early English of a very rude description, which 

 seems to mark the date of the building to be about 1220. 

 It is worthy of remark, that the heads of each of these windows 

 are hewn out of single stones, and that the arch of the porch is 

 formed of two stones only ; at the east end there are two modern 

 buttresses. There is no tower ; the small bell which hung up at 

 the west end, having round the top this inscription, — 



ID RRT 1025, (for 1625,) LOVE GOD, 



has long since been taken down. The inside of the chapel con- 

 tains nothing of especial interest. Over the altar is a bracket, 

 and on the south side, a piscina. A linen altar cloth is still 

 preserved, which was given to this chapel by Mr. William Wake, 

 Rector of Holy Trinity and St. Michael's, Wareham, father of 

 William Wake, of Shapwick, Esq., grandfather of Dr. Wake, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, and distinguished by his loyalty and 

 sufferings during the rebellion. It is wrought with the emblem 

 of the Trinity (pi. xviii,) with blue silk, very evenly and beau- 

 tifully, in a curious stitch. 



This Chapel was anciently called a Chantry, but has been 

 above three hundred years annexed as a Chapel of Ease to the 

 church of the Holy Trinity in Wareham, the rector of which 



