356 Architectural Notes of the Warminster Meeting. 
The chapel, on the south side of the chancel, was probably built 
by John Bettesthorne whose chantry was founded there. The 
chancel does not seem to have had any chapel adjoining it originally. 
In this chapel is the fine brass of John Bettesthorne, 1398 ; another 
fragmentary brass, representing a knight; and an altar-tomb. There 
is a description of John Bettesthorne’s brass and chantry, in Kite’s 
“Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire;”? also of the broken brass,? 
which is assigned by that author to about the date 1430. 
There is a medieval house, of Perpendicular character, to the south 
of the churchyard, called the Chantry House; but I do not under- 
stand that the house really was connected with any chantry. On 
entering this house, by the original entrance, from the north side, 
one observes, on the left hand, the doors that communicated with 
the kitchen and buttery, to the east of the hall. It is evident that 
a great part of the old building remains, and, very probably, the 
original arrangement might be made out, by a careful examination. 
The gate by which carriages enter may probably have been a regular 
gate-house, of Perpendicular date, but, if so, it has been much 
altered. 
To the north of the churchyard, and some little way above it, 
adjoining the high road, is a building, now a barn, but which has 
formerly been a dwelling. It appears as if the greater part had 
been a hall, open from the floor to the roof, which is a fine one, very 
like the hall-roof at Woodlands. The east part has been originally 
divided by a floor into two stories. The lower story has a wooden, 
mullioned, eight-light window, in the north wall, which has formerly 
had tracery.. There is a handsome fire-place on each floor. That 
on the ground-floor bears, amongst its carved decorations, the 
obliterated rebus of the Trinity that I have noticed above, on a 
shield,> and the monograms I.H.S., X.P.S. The house is said to 
1 Page 22, and Plate V. 
* Ibid, p. 31, and Plate VIII. 
3 There is a corresponding blank shield on which, not improbably, the arms 
of the person for whom this building was erected may originally have been 
painted. 
