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Boyton Chueh, in the Dale wt Wylye. 
(Six Miles from Warminster, Sixteen from Salisbury). 
One primary object of the Wilts Archeological Society was 
declared at their inaugural meeting, to be, the notice of Parochial 
Churches, the history or architecture of which, might illustrate either 
our national or local history, or provide subjects for the researches of 
the student or amateur of Ecclesiastical Architecture. The Parish 
Church of Boyton seems to afford considerable data for both these 
laudable purposes; and the following memoir, partly gleaned from 
the labours of others, and partly the fruit of personal knowledge 
and observation, is submitted to the Society, with the hope that 
it may be followed by papers of deeper research, and more engross- 
ing interest. 
In a quiet and retired corner of the Vale of Wylye stands the 
ancient Church of St. Mary, Boyton. 
It shows in the clearest characters the riches and nobility of the 
former owners of the soil and Patrons of the Church, as well as the 
miserable neglect and wretched taste of the later days of the 
English Church. 
The dimensions of the Church are as follows :— 
Chancel .... 38 feet 6 inches by 19 feet. 
NANG. docs es 49 ,, 0 re 22 5, 
North Chapel 13 ,, 0 45 ifs) Fp 
South Chapel 26 ,, 0 a [ores 
Tower...... 10 5 eh6 p TG 5 
The general plan is a Latin Cross, the two side Chapels forming 
the arms. 
The entrance is somewhat singular, being through the Tower 
which is placed on the North side, with an ancient Vestry forming 
a lean-to on the West side of the Tower. 
The materials of which the Church is generally built, consists of 
stone and flints in rough courses, and no better testimony can be 
given to the stability of such construction, than the fact that the 
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