By C. E. Ponting, #.8.A. 193 
building erected in 1841-5, has assumed the dignity of a venerable 
ruin, and is roofless with the exception of the eastern bay of the 
nave and the chancel, which serve as a mortuary chapel. So far as 
its history can be gathered from portions still standing and other 
fragments lying about, the Church appears to have had a nave and 
aisles of four bays of a good type of Perpendicular, with a Georgian 
chancel; the details of the jamb and label moulds of the arcades 
are refined and the foliage carving of the caps is vigorous and well 
eut. The nave had a good west window, which was opened out 
down to the floor to form an archway when a debased western tower, 
now gone, was built. There is nothing to indicate what the previous 
chancel was like, and I have not been able to obtain any information 
about it. 
Tue Hosprrat oF 8S, Joun THE Baptist. WILTON. 
This hospital was founded in 1190 for a prior, two poor men, and 
two poor women. Sir Richard Colt Hoare says :—“ Such at least was 
the state at the Reformation, and being considered to be rather of 
a charitable than a superstitious nature it was not dissolved, and is 
consequently yet in being.” 4 
The residential part runs north and south, at right angles to the 
road on which the north end abuts: this end is the work of early in 
the fourteenth century. There is a central buttress and on each 
side was a square-head two-light window, one of which remains 
almost intact, and the jamb of the other with the ends of the sill 
splays is visible, so that its dimensions can be traced; but this 
window has been cut into for the insertion of modern work. There ~ 
isa two-light window in the gable and a coeval buttress exists at the 
north-west angle. The north-east angle has the original large 
 quoin stones nearly 4ft. long, and no buttress ever existed here. 
On the west side are the old wall and string but no other features. 
On the east side of this block the wall is weathered in at some 24ft. 
below the eaves, excepting where the doorway occurs; this was 
doubtless always the entrance, and had a porch over it. The wall 
1 Modern Wilts, vol. II., p. 126. 
