240 The Churches of Purton and Wanborough. 
instead of square with the tower. The north-east and south-east 
buttresses are carried up inside the aisles to the same form and 
dimensions as the outer ones. _ 
The north porch is coeval with the tower: it has a niche over 
the doorway and a stoup on the right-hand side. The inner door- 
way in the north aisle wall is, however, an insertion, and earlier in 
date than the wall in which it is placed, and the inner arch which 
occurs over it; it is, moreover, awkwardly inserted out of centre 
with the latter. A stoup of large size occurs westward of it on 
the inside. The south porch is a plain one of late date. 
The chancel and its coeval sacristy opening out from the south 
side of the sacrarium were apparently erected at about 1490. 
A glance at what is known of the medieval history of Wan- 
borough, as given in Canon Jackson’s “ Aubrey,” appears to throw 
some light on certain parts of this Church. 
There appear to have been three chapels in Wanborough. Aubrey! 
refers to a tradition that Viscount Lovell, favourite to Richard III., 
had a house in the parish, with chapel adjoining ; he also speaks of 
another chapel at Hall Place, near, dedicated to St. Ambrose, both 
house and chapels having been pulled down, and the materials 
carried to build the tower of the parish Church. (Canon Jackson, 
however, calls attention to the inconsistency of this statement, as 
Lovell did not own the estate till 1464, whereas the tower was 
begun in 1435.) 
Captain Symonds, of King Charles’s army who visited Wan- 
borough in 1644 mentions a “Church of St. Margaret’s,” that 
stood by Lovell’s House, which is probably identical with the St. 
Ambrose above-mentioned, the latter dedication being probably the 
correct one, as a field at Hall Place is still called by that name. 
The third chapel, that of St. Katharine, appears to have been 
one of great importance, having two foundations within it by 
separate families, five priests in its service, a choir who kept the 
obits, more than one altar, and bells. This had hitherto been 
commonly supposed to have been the building on the north side of 
1 Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 196. 
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