192 The Environs of Bath. 



and all of their lands and tenements which they were 

 possessed of in Swayneswyke, Tatwyke, and the city of Bath. 

 This manor and advowson seems to have passed from the 

 Eordes to several proprietors, and ultimately came into the 

 possession of the Rev. R. Dudley, D.D., Fellow of Oriel 

 College, Oxford, and Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral, who 

 in 1529 granted them to his college for the maintenance of two 

 fellows and two exhibitioners, and the college still holds these 

 properties. Tatwick, or Tatwyke, is an ancient manor and 

 hamlet in this parish, situate about one mile north of the village. 

 It is known in Domesday as " Tatewiche;" and after the Con- 

 quest was given to the Monks of Bath, but at the Dissolution it 

 was granted to Sir Walter Dennis. This village was the birth- 

 place, in 1600, of the celebrated William Prynne.* The 

 church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, now consists of a 

 western tower, nave, with north aisle, a chancel with a chapel 

 on the north side, and a south porch. It shows evident 

 signs of considerable antiquity, and was originally probably 

 either a Norman or a transitional Norman building. The 

 tower, which is now included in the church, and presents a 

 very awkward appearance, was, no doubt, originally outside 

 the old church. The entrance from it to the Nave is under 

 an early English arch. The south wall of the Nave, as well 

 as the south pier of the chancel arch, which is early English, 

 are much out of the perpendicular, and probably have been 

 in the same state for a long period. The windows on the south 

 ■side, as well as the stoup, with its ornamental canopy, just 

 inside the south door, appear to be decorated. The chapel is 

 separated from the chancel by an arch with modern panel- 

 ling. On the south side of this chapel there is a piscina ; and 



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