Riess. >” 
By C. E. Ponting, Esq. 241 
the chancel of the parish Church, to which I have given the name 
of sacristy. But, as Canon Jackson points out, a chapel so “richly 
endowed, served, and appointed, must have been a more important 
structure than this, and he considered that it was an edifice altogether 
separate from the parish Church, and probably in quite a different 
part of the parish. 
Canon Jackson, however, incidentally mentions that St. Katharine’s 
chapel and its lands became the property of Magdalen College, 
Oxon, in 1483, when the former was suppressed and its services 
discontinued, and he also says, “ Captain Symonds, too (1644), was 
told that the chancel had been a chapel, and the body added since.” 
Is it not possible that the chapel known as St. Katharine’s was 
the one last referred to, that it stood on the site of the present 
chancel, that the “ body of the Church” was added to it at about 
1400, making it the chancel of the parish Church, and that it (the 
chapel) was pulled down on the suppression of the chantries in 
1483, the present chancel being erected in its place? If this were 
so, the early fourteenth century doorway, which is iserted in the 
later wall of the north aisle (and not built into it at the time of the 
erection of the wall) was most probably taken from the chapel at 
this time and placed here to supersede a plainer doorway more like 
that on the south side. It is much richer in detail, as well as being 
earlier in date, than any other part of the Church. Then Aubrey 
states that in the glazing of the east window, which then (1659-70) 
existed, this inscription occurs :—! 
“®rate py. Dna... . que hane fenestram fleri fecit. 
Anno Bri. millesimo. COCO, LXXX, DL.” 
And adds :— 
«a Hmma Fisher, as I am informed.” 
Canon Jackson says :—“ This is probably Avice Fisher, elected 
Prioress of Ambresbury, 16th May, 1486, who becoming thereby 
Rector of Wanborough, may have adorned her chancel with the 
window.” 
1 Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 199. 
