420 Notes on the Cliurclies of Ashley, Berivick Bassett, etc. 



The plan is a parallellogram running east and west divided hj 

 a cross passage with a door at each end. On the west of this 

 passage, and divided from it by a solid-framed oak screen (moulded 

 on the west side and chamfered on the other) is the hall with 

 fireplace and chimney in the west gable and a two-light north 

 window, also another by the side of the fireplace, and the south 

 window has been superseded by the modern addition. On the 

 other side of the passage is a solid division wall, and beyond it the 

 kitchen. All this part has the original roof. The entrance to the 

 hall inside the south porch, the stone doorway of which remained 

 until a few years ago, now forms the entrance to the old house at 

 Vasterne, Wootton Bassett. The doorway at the north end of the 

 passage leading out into the churchyard, as well as that in the 

 south porch, still remains. 



On the south is a two-gabled projection, one part forming the 

 two-storied porch, with its stone doorway preserved, and the other 

 part the stair ; on the north side opposite the stair is a projection, 

 probably the buttery, with overhung half-timber framing to the 

 room over. The whole of the kitchen has half-timber work to the 

 upper storey, and the main posts are conspicuous features in the 

 rooms, but the hall (which is now divided into two storeys) had 

 the stone walls carried up to the roof. 



Part of the timber framing has been covered with rough-cast, 

 and part with tile-hanging. 



This house does not appear to have been favoured by the lord 

 of the manor in later times, for a larger house of the Jacobean 

 period has been built some distance to the south-east of it, nearer 

 the road. Here the walls of one room were covered with painted 

 canvas, said to have been done by a Dutch prisoner ; but this also 

 went to adorn the dining-room of the house at Vasterne. 



Sir Stephen Glynne's notes on this Church, made 29th April, 



1850, are as follows:- — ^ 



' In St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, are preserved the MS. notes made 

 by Sir Stephen Glynne, cir. 1850, on a great number of Churches throughout 

 England, including one hundred and ten in Wiltshire. Of these last, by 

 the kindness of the Warden, Canon Joyce, the Society has been enabled to 

 procure copies. The notes dealing with the Churches described by Mr.. 

 Ponting in this paper are here printed within brackets. — Ed. 



