20 ANNALS OF HORESTON AND HORSLEY. 



This William granted Depedale to that convent, and founded a 

 chantry in the Hermitage chapel, now the south aisle of Dale 

 church. 



So little of the ruins of Horsley Castle remain, that it is 

 impossible to say with any certainty what portions of the fabric 

 were constructed at this time. One thing is certain, that a very 

 large quantity of moulded ashlars and other fragments of this 

 period now compose a part of the wall of the old park, running 

 from what I call Roger's pond, below the pound, up the valley at 

 the back of Horsley Park farmhouse. A stone from this wall 

 formerly decorated the gable end of a pig-cote at Horsley Park 

 farm at the time the old buildings were taken down. It consisted 

 of the cap of a column, the lower portion beneath the abacus 

 forming a wolfs head with distended jaws, the top of the column 

 being thrust into its mouth. I have often enquired about this 

 relic, but never could learn its fate ; happily, I made a careful 

 sketch of it at the time, which is here reproduced, together 

 with another moulded stone. 



In the year 1852, i.e., 35 years ago, by permission of Edward 

 Degge Sitwell, Esq., I made excavations on the site of the old 



