By Harold Brakspear, FS.A. 203 
“rok. Dat. anno gratize M’cc® quadragesimo primo die Sancti 
Johannis ante portam Latinam.”’ } 
The earlier quarry referred to was probably also at Haslebury ; 
as the Crooks were lords of that manor, so that the reason for the 
exchange for another in the same place is not clear. 
These early quarries were tunnelled into the sides of the hills 
with surface adits, but are all now worked out and have given place 
to the stone mines of the present day, which are such a peculiar 
feature of the neighbourhood. In Aubrey’s time “ Haselbury 
Quarre is not to be forgott, it is the eminentest free-stone quarrey 
in the West of England, Malmesbury and all round the country of 
Tue CuHuRcH. 
The church at Lacock occupied the south side of the cloister. 
superfluous and utterly destroyed by Sir William Sharington, with 
the exception of the six westernmost bays of the north wall. These 
were retained to form the south wall of the new manor-house, and 
so have remained to the present day, though much mutilated by 
modern insertions of about 1828.3 
_ Until November, 1898, the extent of the church was merely 
eonjectural, but during that and the following month excavations 
were made on the site, with the help of donations from the 
Society of Antiquaries and the Wilts Archzological Society. The 
1 Ibid. Translated. Robert Abbot of Stanley in Wiltshire and the Convent 
f the same place give to the said Convent one part of their quarry of Haslebury, 
ng in length seventy six feet and in width that which was theirs, that they 
lay take as much stone as they can from that place in exchange for the other 
larry that the Convent bought of Henry Crok. Given in the year of grace 
on the day of St. John ante portam Latinam. 
* Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 58. 
These consist of :—in the first bay from the west, a large oriel window; — 
| the second, a buttress, a small oriel, and a doorway on the ground-level ; 
next two bays above the string-course have been destroyed to form a 
i! jection containing a large oriel; in the fifth bay is a large 16th century 
indow, altered into a sash window in the 18th century; and in the sixth 
y a small two-light window. 
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