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proposed to turn the farmhouse into cottages, and commenced to 

 do so. Plaster of amazing thickness encrusted the walls both 

 inside and outside, effectually obliterating all ancient marks. At 

 the back of the building Mr. Butterworth detected a slight 

 depression about 14 feet from the ground, which he imagined, 

 from its semi-circular shape, might have been a window. On 

 moving the plaster this was found to be the case. After further 

 careful investigation, a chapel, consisting of a nave and chancel 

 was found, separated from each other by a chancel arch. The 

 extreme length is 46 feet, the width of the inside of the nave 16 

 feet, that of the chancel 16 feet, but the original v/all on the 

 south of the chancel has been destroyed. The height of the side 

 wall of the nave is 17 feet, and the thickness of the walls 2 feet 

 6 inches ; the material is blue Lias of the locality, but the 

 angles, arches and jambs are worked in dressed stone of an 

 Oolitic character. The height of the chancel arch is 10 feet, 

 the width about 6 feet. It is built with large blocks of stone. 

 Like the Saxon Ecclesiola of Bradford-on-Avon, this chapel had 

 two entrances towards the west end of the nave. The one on 

 the south side is scarcely discernible, but on the north side half 

 of the arch remains of horse-shoe shape, and one entire jamb 

 consisting of five solid blocks of different sizes. There appear 

 to have been no doors. The dimensions of the entrance arch 

 are about 8 feet high by 2 feet 8 inches wide. There is another 

 resemblance to the Bradford Chapel in the absence of windows 

 at both the east and west ends. In the chancel there is a 

 window of the 16th century, and in the south wall of the nave 

 an original semi-circular window, about 10 feet from the ground, 

 and on the north wall there are evidences of a window opposite. 

 The roof is modern, resting upon two side walls; across these 

 walls are old oak beams black with age, probably a thousand 

 years old. The existence of these in situ gives a unique character 

 to the remains, and in this respect more interesting than the 

 Bradford Chapel with its open modern slanting roof. In the 



