32 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 



SO embowered in trees that no distant view of it can be 

 obtained. This old sanctuary was dismantled at the erection 

 of the present Church of Brackenfield, where its ancient rood- 

 screen may be seen attached to the west wall of the nave. 



The font, a modern fluted bason [c. 1800) with its shaft 

 similarly adorned, now stands on the vicarage lawn. Trinity 

 Chapel is rapidly falling into ruin. It consists of one rectangular 

 block with a continuous roof from east to west, covered with 

 slabs of stone. There are only three windows — one at the east 

 end and two on the south side, all square-headed with chamfered 

 stone muUions, but without tracery. A large stone, which has 

 been thought to have been the mensa of the ancient altar, lies 

 under the east window within. A porch with a flat-headed door- 

 way is on the south side. The fabric possesses a most picture- 

 esque bell turret with two openings of very Norman-like 

 character, but hardly so early — it has, however, a quaint beauty 

 seldom met with, and it is a pity that it should be destined 

 ere long to become a thing of the past. A few of the old 

 oak benches (rude forms, I believe, without backs) still remain 

 in the building. There is no chapel yard, and no interments 

 have been permitted to take place there. 



The site for the chapel has been cut out of the rocky hill 

 side, and the bell turret at the west end rises but a few feet 

 above the slope of the hill. 



The chapel appears to have been erected but a short time 

 before the Reformation, perhaps about 1520 — 1530. 



In the Churchwardens' accounts of Morton we find, 1634, 

 "Item, given to a poore woman of Dufifield upon Trinitie 

 Sunday (the Wakes) at the Chapell by the consent of the 

 P'shners there, which had her house burnt away — 2^" 



In vol. xix. of this Joui-iml^ p. 108, will be found the 

 monumental inscriptions of the Revs. William and Peter 

 Wilson, successively ministers of this chapel, on a high tomb 

 in Morton churchyard.] Leonard continues : — 



" After that I went to Winster and wrought there 7 dayes 

 before I retourned. 



