By ©. E. Ponting, FS.A. 27 
in 1398; the inscription is remarkable as giving the Dominical 
letter for the year (E).1 The manor of Chadenwyche (now pro- 
nounced Charnage), together with much other property in Wilts 
and elsewhere, went to his only daughter Elizabeth, wife of Sir 
John Berkeley, Kt., and the chantry was then known as “ Berkeley’s 
Chantry.” ? 
In the floor of the sanctuary of the chapel are the remains of 
another brass, supposed to be that of Sir John Berkeley, who died 
1426-7. This is described by Aubrey‘ as that “ of a Chevalier 
with a Greyhound at his feet ; his wife’s effigies is lost, as also the 
escutcheons and inscription:” the brass was then more complete, 
but it appears to have become reduced to its present condition by 
Hoare’s time. 
Under the eastern arch is a Purbeck marble altar-tomb with the 
sides enriched by elaborate tracery with shields. There was a brass 
on one of the shields (that on the west side) but this, together with 
the inscription, was lost before Aubrey’s visit. The tomb is coeval 
with the screens, and it may well have marked the burying-place 
of the first Lord Stourton (referred to later), who died in 1463, and 
who doubtless assisted in the great work of re-modelling the Church 
which was then drawing to a close. 
This seems to be a suitable place at which to mention the con- 
siderable slope of the floor of the chapel from north to south, in the 
direction of the natural fall of the site: this has been jealously 
preserved in the recent works of restoration, as a striking instance 
of the practice which I believe was very general in medieval times. 
The floor of the entire Church seems to have followed the same 
lines, for it has been levelled up at the south porch to the extent of 
15in., as indicated by the benches in the porch and the stops of the 
door jambs; and the bases of the south arcade of the nave are 5;in. 
lower than those on the north. 
1 Kite’s Wilts Brasses, p. 23. 
2 See Appendix F. 
3 Kite, p. 31. 
4 Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 387. 
