By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 295 



The Chuiicu. 



" From a certain Latin book of Edindon Monastery : — 

 3 July, A.D. 1352 : was laid the first stone of the Monastery of Eflindon. 

 A.D. 1361. The Conventual Church of Edindon was dedicated by Robert 



Weyville, Bishop of Sarum to the honour of St James the Apostle, S. Katharine 



and all Saints." 



It is on the authority of the above extract, made by Leland on 

 the spotj that we are able to fix the date of Eding-don Church : for 

 though the memorandum copied by him mentions only the laying 

 of the first stone of the Monastery (not necessarily the same thing 

 as the Church), there can be no doubt that the entire establishment 

 is to be understood. " St, James the Apostle," as one of the saints 

 to whom the Church was dedicated, may have been an error of 

 Leland's in copying. In the foundation charter, printed in the New 

 Monasticon (vi., 536), the dedication is to the B. V. Mary, St. 

 Katharine and All Saints. 



As Bishop William of Edingdon did not die till 1366, the whole 

 was finished in his lifetime. It was, therefore, entirely under his 

 superintendence and through his influence that the work was com- 

 pleted, and no doubt in great measure at his own expense, with aid 

 from such patrons and friends as the Abbess of Romsey and Sir 

 Ralph Cheney who had married the co-heiress of the Pavely family 

 of Brook House. 



The Church is cruciform in plan, and consists of a clerestoried 

 nave of six bays with aisles corresponding, transepts, tower at the 

 intersection, large chancel, and south porch of three stories, one of 

 which is called the Priesfs room. The use of little rooms in this 

 situation was various : sometimes they served, as at Fotheringhay 

 Church, Co. Northampton, where also there are two above the porch, 

 one for a chorister's vestry, the other for the sacristan or sexton : 

 sometimes for a church, library. 



The measurements are : — * Ft. in. 



Nave length 75 



breadth, including aisles 53 8 

 height 45 



' From the Rev. A. Fane's paper, Wilts Archaol. Mag., iii., 50. 



