By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 35 
high hill or tower)—dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, just 
above the spring which supplies the town with water; the 
locality beneath it still being called Lady Well, and the adjoin- 
ing premises Well-Close. There is still standing the east wall 
with its window, and also a niche of very chaste design. (Plate 
iv.) The tracery of the window seems to point it out as the 
work of the latter part of the fifteenth or the beginning of the 
sixteenth century, though it is by no means impossible that the 
present building may itself have been originally a restoration, a 
previous chapel having stood on the same spot. The churches of 
Wraxhall and Holt, and (to judge from what remains of the original 
church have been left) of Winsley, are all to be traced to this pe- 
riod. Aubrey, moreover, tells us that the chancel window of the 
church at Atworth, as he saw it, seemed to be of the date of 
Edward III. 
In the town, moreover, we had a chapel dedicated to St. Olave, 
which stood at the corner of the lane leading up to White Hill, 
the street leading from that chapel to the river, or to Mull street, 
(now Mill street), being called Frog-mere street. By degrees St. 
Olave street became contracted into ’¢ Olav street, and then cor- 
rupted into Tooley street, its name within the last seventy-five 
years. Since that time it has taken the name of the tything, 
and been called Woolley street. As a confirmation of the truth of 
this opinion, as to the origin of the name, it may be mentioned 
that the street in Southwark, in which St. Olave’s church now 
stands, is still called Tootzy street. 
It is probable, also, that there was a chapel dedicated to St. 
Catherine, and that it formed part of what is now called the Old 
Women’s Almshouse, situated at the southern extremity of the 
town, at what used to be called Clay acre, now Clay farm. That 
there was a chapel at this spot we can have no doubt. Aubrey, in 
fact, who visited us 200 years ago, says expressly, “A little beyond 
the bridge is a chapel and almshouse of ancient date.” When the 
comprised the buildings connected with the chapel, at the west end of Tory, or 
Top Rank as it is called. On the same map ‘the chapel’ is called ‘the 
Hermitage. 
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