24 Ivy Church Priory. 



The font is a plain bowl, the short stem of which is an addition to 

 the original design. The pulpit is a late Jacobean one with carved 

 panels, the shelf supported by bird-shaped brackets. 



The royal arms at the west end, are those of Queen Anne, with 

 the motto " Semper eadem." 



In the churchyard, westward of the tower, is a coped tombstone 

 having the three upper arms of a cross with large fleur-de-lys 

 terminals, and no stem. 



Ivy Church Priory. 



This is described and illustrated in Wiltshire Notes and Queries 

 for March, 1893, by Mr. D. E. Warry, but elsewhere I have not 

 met with more than a brief note, nor any account of the buildings 

 of the Priory beyond that in the note below. 1 The house appears 

 to have been founded by King Stephen for a prior and thirteen 

 canons, and most of the architectural features which remain are 

 of this period. The Priory held lands in the parish of Swindon. 



At the Dissolution the Priory buildings came to the Dean and 

 Chapter of Salisbury who subsequently leased the property to 

 Henry, Earl of Pembroke, and at the beginning of last century it 

 was purchased by Earl Radnor. After this the buildings were 

 converted into a school, at which Professor Pawcett, amongst 

 others, was educated, and unfortunately they were pulled down, 

 with the exception of the part of the Church which remains, in 

 1888, when some of the oak timbers of the refectory roof were 

 given to the Eector of Pewsey, and erected over the vestry and 

 organ chamber which I designed for his Church (would that I had 



'See Wilts Arch. Mag., xxviii., 312, where in the report of the Boyal 

 Commissioners appointed to enquire into the lesser Wiltshire monasteries it 

 is stated that " the Priory of Ederos, alias Ivychurch " is " a hedde house of 

 chanons of Seint Augustyne's rule ; the church whereof is the parish church 

 to the inhabitants there of Whaddon and the forest of Claringdon." " Church, 

 mansion, and oute houses in very good state, with inoche newe buylding of 

 stone and brelce. Leade and belles none but oonely upon the church and in 

 the stepell of the parish." 



