186 Architectural Notes on Places visited by the Society in 1891. 
of Saxon times, belonging to the Abbey. Having thus seen 
everything well, tea was very kindly provided for the party in the 
hall, after which a move was made to visit the one remaining 
portion of the ancient Abbey, a detached building perhaps 
originally a storehouse, near the present stables, retaining its old 
fourteenth century windows and doors. After seeing this, Mr. 
Mepricorr expressed the thanks of the Society to their noble host 
and hostess for their kindness and hospitality, and the thirty-eighth 
Annual Meeting of the Society came to an end, to remain in the 
minds of those who took part in it as marked by more than usual 
kindness and hospitality on the part of the Society’s entertainers, 
and by perhaps more than usual interest in the places and objects 
visited during the two days’ excursions. 
Architectural Gotes on Places bisited by the 
Society in 1891. 
By C. E. Pontine, F.S.A. 
Witton Hovssz. 
~cHE site of this house has been a place of residence from 
¥iZjs Anglo-Saxon times, when the famous Benedictine monastery 
was planted here.! At the Dissolution the abbey and its extensive 
estates were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir William Herbert (the 
dates of the grants being 1542 and 1544). A perusal of Mr. 
Nightingale’s paper (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xviii., p. 81) on the 
life of this remarkable man who played so important a part in the 
1In the Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, vol. xix., p. 229, is an extract 
from Dugdale’s Monasticon of a deed of gift of North Newnton to the Monastery 
of Wilton, by King Athelstan, in A.D. 933. 
