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with a lion passant gardant argent; between the squares were 
birds azure, beaked and legged gules; the whole forming a pleasing 
diagonal pattern. The west wall was coloured as the field gules, 
and the whole surface covered with lions statant gardant, argent. 
The south wall was decorated with a kind of trellis pattern formed 
into oblong divisions by vertical and horizontal red lines, at each 
crossing of them was a calyx of four small black leaves; from each 
alternate one issued to the right and to the left a black stem with 
a flower of five red petals and white centre, so that there was a 
flower in each compartment of the trellis. No decorations were 
traceable on the east wall. Many fragments of ancient floor tiles 
were found among the débris of the building. 
The remaining part of the Sub-Chantry house was of later and 
various dates, and contained but little of interest. 
The foregoing account is compiled by me from notes which I 
made at the time of the demolition, I being then employed by Mr. 
Fisher, the clerk of the works, to superintend the alterations. 
The accompanying illustration of the wall-decorations is made 
from tracings taken by me, now in the Society’s Library at Devizes. 
The following extract from the late Canon Jones’ “ Fasti 
Keclesize Sarisberiensis,”’ p. 272, relates to this house :— 
“It was at an early period that the office of Succentor was endowed with the 
Rectory of Ebbesbourne Wake. A house also was assigned to the Succentor 
August 27th, 1440. It was conveyed to William Berwyk, then Succentor, and 
his successors, subject to the payment of certain ‘obits,’ and is described as a 
house within the close, ‘ opposite the western entrance to the Cathedral, situated 
between the house of the chaplains of the chantry of Lord Hungerford on one 
side, and a small house near the house of the Dean on the other side.’ ” 
