120 The Early History of the Upper Wylye Valley. 
Stockton of the 13th; Sutton (St. Leonard’s) was re-built in the 
13th; Codford St. Peter and Brixton have 13th century work, but 
there are traces of older work in both; Norton has work of the 
early or middle of the 14th century; Kingston, of the 14th; 
Bishopstrow, as now existing, of the middle of the 15th, and this, 
as we saw, may have been an old foundation then. 
There are two churches of which the foundation presents some 
points of interest, Hill Deverill and Longbridge. Hill was the 
subject of dispute soon after its foundation. The Osmund Register 
I. 349—351) gives a deed of Elyas Giffard, of which the date is 
1130—1135, in which he certifies to the Bishop of Sarum his gift 
of the Church of Hill to Heytesbury, founded “in feudo Walteri 
militis mei, eodem Waltero concedente.” We get further details 
in a document of the date 1156 to 1160. The two disputants were 
the aforesaid Walter and Canon Roger, founder of the Prebendal 
Church at Heytesbury. The ordinary chairman would have been 
Azo, the Archdeacon of Sarum, Roger’s brother; but Walter 
“suspected” Azo, and the Bishop therefore, to satisfy all parties, 
appointed Adelelm, the Archdeacon of Dorset, to act. The case 
was argued in St. Peter’s Church, at Glaston Deverill (Longbridge ), 
before a rural chapter of the deanery. Canon Roger argued that 
the Church belonged to his prebend, while Walter argued that it 
had never so belonged. The judgment was in favour of Roger, and 
Elyas Giffard therefore drew up his deed forbidding the aforesaid 
Walter or his heirs from raising any vexatious controversy against 
Heytesbury Church in the matter. So the church formed a prebend 
in the Collegiate church of Heytesbury till the Act of 1839 abolished 
the prebends there.! 
The notice in this document is valuable, because it confirms Mr. 
Ponting’s date of the earliest architecture in Longbridge Church 
as being 1130—1150, and because there is an oral tradition, still 

1Two of the prebends in this Church, Tytherington and Horningsham, 
were united before 1400, and then separated again, and named with subtle 
discrimination, one, ‘‘ The prebend of Tytherington ewm Horningsham,” the 
other, ‘‘ The prebend of Horningsham cum Tytherington.” Hoare, Hundred 
of Heytesbury, 305. 
